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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
To hear, one must be silent.
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
Hope is a slow business.
