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

  Inspirational, Believe, Imagination

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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

  Stars, Animal, Sea

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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

  Spiritual, Appreciation, Recovery

  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

  Important, World, Humans

  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

  Technology, Reality, Roots

  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

  Technology, Racism, Hierarchy

  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

  Giving Up, Technology, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• We always want to be going forward. It's scary to go back.

  Chellis Glendinning

  Scary, Want

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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