We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.
It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.
Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.
The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let me point out that it is now snowing outside, in October.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book. " And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about. "