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Ecology and Revolutionary Thought with The Ecology Action East Manifesto and Toward an Ecological Solution QUOTES

Ecology and Revolutionary Thought with The Ecology Action East Manifesto and Toward an Ecological Solution QUOTES

1 " Anarchism is not only a stateless society but also a harmonized society that exposes man to the stimuli provided by both agrarian and urban life, to physical activity and mental activity, to unrepressed sensuality and self-directed spirituality, to communal solidarity and individual development, to regional uniqueness and worldwide brotherhood, to spontaneity and self-discipline, to the elimination of toil and the promotion of craftsmanship. "

― Murray Bookchin , Ecology and Revolutionary Thought with The Ecology Action East Manifesto and Toward an Ecological Solution

2 " It is impossible to achieve a harmonization of man and nature without creating a human community that lives in a lasting balance with its natural environment. "

― Murray Bookchin , Ecology and Revolutionary Thought with The Ecology Action East Manifesto and Toward an Ecological Solution

3 " The truth is that man has produced imbalances not only in nature but more fundamentally in his relations with his fellow man--in the very structure of his society. To state this thought more precisely: the imbalances man has produced in the natural world are caused by the imbalances he has produced in the social world. "

― Murray Bookchin , Ecology and Revolutionary Thought with The Ecology Action East Manifesto and Toward an Ecological Solution

4 " Broadly conceived, however, ecology deals with the balance of nature. Inasmuch as nature includes man, the science basically deals with the harmonization of nature and man. This focus has explosive implications. The explosive implications of an ecological approach arise not only from the fact that ecology is intrinsically a critical science--in fact, critical on a scale that the most radical systems of political economy failed to attain--but it is also an integrative and reconstructive science. "

― Murray Bookchin , Ecology and Revolutionary Thought with The Ecology Action East Manifesto and Toward an Ecological Solution