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remembering how he and a handful of green-souled friends tried to save the world.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Ishmael thought for a moment. “Among the people of your culture, which want to destroy the world?” “Which want to destroy it? As far as I know, no one specifically wants to destroy the world.” “And yet you do destroy it, each of you. Each of you contributes daily to the destruction of the world.” “Yes, that’s so.” “Why don’t you stop?” I shrugged.
... See moreDaniel Quinn • Ishmael: A Novel (Ishmael Series Book 1)
Emu is a troublemaker who brings into being the most destructive idea in existence: I am greater than you; you are less than me.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
People who have unlearned how to decide about their own rights on their own evidence become pawns in a world game operated by mega-machines.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
It’s not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it’s a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. OUR culture. And here is the best of the news I have to bring: We don’t have to change HUMANKIND in order to survive. We only have to change a single culture.
Daniel Quinn • The Story of B (Ishmael Series Book 2)
dream! I wonder if you fully understand why they’ve kept you so well hidden out there at Ieu Eun, Dr. Shevek. Why you never were allowed to appear at any meeting open to the public. Why they’ll be after you like dogs after a rabbit the moment they find you’re gone. It’s not just because they want this idea of yours. But because you are an idea. A d
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
The guide, not the hero, is the one with the most authority.
Donald Miller • Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
PBS series The Power of Myth, Campbell