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Quote for the day – Saturday February 14
“It is in revolution’s fire, in its enthusiasm, its brotherhood, its aggressiveness that the image and the feeling of positive unification awakens; a unification that comes through a connecting quality: love as force”. Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
Quote for the day – Friday February 13
“It has taken me all of my life so far to realize that the single great obstacle in the way of survival and an extended human vision is the industrial society itself, and its expropriation and suppression of the most sensitive and creative qualities of the mind”. Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book … Continue reading Quote for the day – Friday February 13
Quote for the day – Thursday February 12
“Anyone who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is”. Meister Eckhart
Quote for the day – Wednesday February 11
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another”. Hermann Hesse, Siddharta
Quote for the Day – Tuesday February 10
“Life in societies is no exception in the animal world; it is the rule, the law of Nature, and it reaches its fullest development with the higher vertebrates”. Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
The Acorn – 1
Number 1 In this issue: Road fight is back on Battle of Hastings Rising Up in Bristol French resistance to concrete future The end of endless growth Rewilding journalism Acorninfo 1. Road fight is back on The fight to save a treasured piece of Sussex countryside is back on – 12 years after a protest … Continue reading The Acorn – 1
… dreaming of spring
Press interview with Paul Cudenec
Writer Paul Cudenec has given an interview to a newspaper in England about his latest book, The Stifled Soul of Humankind. Paul told the West Sussex County Times, which covers the area where he used to live, why he had chosen to go to France to write. “I could feel a real negative pressure building … Continue reading Press interview with Paul Cudenec
Spirals of hope
We have just brought out a series of free mini-booklets called Winter Oak Branches of Knowledge. The fourth of these is adapted from the final chapter of Paul Cudenec’s new book The Stifled Soul of Humankind and is called Spirals of Hope. Here is the text: Deep anxiety is a common personal reaction to … Continue reading Spirals of hope
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