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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.
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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
Hope is a slow business.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
