Ecotopia Quotes

“People were to be happy not to the extent they dominated their fellow creatures on the earth, but to the extent they lived in balance with them”
― Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia

“But what matters most is the aspiration to live in balance with nature, "walk lightly on the land," treat the earth as a mother. No surprise that to such a morality most industrial processes, work schedules, and products are suspect!”
― Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia

“Then I had to learn that truth was not some single easy thing you could "know" automatically, but an uneasy and always tentative compound of facts, inferences, balances - inherently hypothetical even when it seems altogether obvious”
― Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia

“There is beauty in weathered and unpainted wood, in orchards overgrown, even in abandoned cars being incorporated into the earth... let us embrace decay, for it is the source of all new life and growth.”
― Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia