Chellis Glendinning quotes

“If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.”
-- Chellis Glendinning

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“It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.”
-- Chellis Glendinning

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“Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner peace, unselfconscious humility, an urge to communal cooperation, and heartfelt appreciation for the world around them.”
-- Chellis Glendinning

Source : Chellis Glendinning (2007). “My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization”

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“The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world.”
-- Chellis Glendinning

Source : Source: www.scottlondon.com

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“A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots.”
-- Chellis Glendinning

Source : Source: www.scottlondon.com

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“Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.”
-- Chellis Glendinning

Source : Source: www.scottlondon.com

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“People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."”
-- Chellis Glendinning

Source : Source: www.scottlondon.com

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“We always want to be going forward. It's scary to go back.”
-- Chellis Glendinning

Source : Source: www.scottlondon.com

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“The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.”

“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”

Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989

“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”

“Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.”

“I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.”

Source : "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.

“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”

“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”

“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”

“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”