Old english Quote by Ronald Wright

“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I…

— Ronald Wright

“The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and…

— Ronald Wright

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

— Ronald Wright

“Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.”

— Ronald Wright

Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal…

— Ronald Wright

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

— Ronald Wright

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily…

— Ronald Wright

“In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive…

— Ronald Wright

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

— Ronald Wright

Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal…

— Ronald Wright

America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a…

— Ronald Wright

“Soon after man shows up in new lands, the big game starts to go missing. […] A bad smell of extinction follows Home sapiens…

— Ronald Wright