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Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor—poor farmers.

Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)

In fact, though, Weaver was not so much antiliberal as antimodern. This shows itself, for example, in his discussion of private property. He praises private property as “the last metaphysical right.” But although he clearly appreciates the place of private property in fostering liberty and forestalling the tyranny of the state, his defense is actua

Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

The moral of his story was how you never know the size of hurt that’s in people’s hearts, or what they’re liable to do about it, given the chance.

Barbara Kingsolver • Demon Copperhead: A Novel

Communitarian sages like Kentucky poet and essayist Wendell Berry have implied that the bulk of the project of rejuvenating community life might simply involve reviving a sense of membership in our various social systems. The task at hand, Berry and his followers argue, is to transform our systems of education, health, business, religious observanc... See more

Understand Where You Live No.41 September 1984

Exploring bioregionalism, Thomas Berry emphasizes sustainable, self-sufficient communities that harmonize human existence with natural systems while critiquing capitalism, colonialism, and centralized urban structures.

thomasberry.org

an essential purpose of government—maybe the essential purpose of government—is to serve as the trustee of the commons. The commons includes the surface of the earth, the minerals under the earth, the water on and under the ground, the richness of the soil, the electromagnetic spectrum, the planetary genome, the biota of local and global ecosystems

Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

Kurt Vonnegut, wrote that one of the flaws in the human character “is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Long-term, healthy patterns of social organization, among all social life-forms, it seemed to me, hinged on work that maintained the integrity of the community while at the same time granting autonomy to its individuals. What made a society beautiful was some combination of autonomy and deference that, together, minimized strife.” Barry Lopez from