Sublime
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I consider conviviality to be individual freedom realized in personal interdependence and, as such, an intrinsic ethical value.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality

his story expressed one of the unappeasable longings of the human imagination: the idea of a perfected society in which the world’s lost innocence will be restored and the Golden Age before the Fall will return.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
William Morris caressait un rêve similaire : « Il me semble que personne ne se soucie d’améliorer les choses – et moi non plus, vois-tu, en dépit de mes récriminations. Mais, voyons, imaginons des gens qui vivraient dans de petites communautés entourées de jardins et de prés verts, de sorte que l’on puisse se retrouver en pleine campagne après cinq
... See moreTom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être libre: Dans un monde absurde (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
given by Aldo Leopold in his essay, “The Land Ethic”
Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged?
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Eloise Hendy • Home is where the heart is, according to young people

You could sit up as late as you pleased, and, whenever you got up, go abroad without any landlord or house-lord dogging you for rent. Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this.