| Love just one nation and the whole
world you divide.
- Spearhead
To learn about the world through first-hand, one-on-one meetings
with people from around the world is a valuable human experience.
If travelers' experiences were consistently negative, they would
not pursue their journeys enthusiastically and share their experiences
with others. We discover universal themes of human culture.
We become more aware that no matter where we live we are all
confronting similar situations as we ultimately become a global
community.
- Deborah McLaren, Rethinking
Tourism and Ecotravel: The Paving of Paradise and How You Can
Stop It
The skin around every city looks the same
miles of flat neon spelling well-known names
- Bruce Cockburn, Silver Wheels
The whole world is watching now.
- Peter Gabriel
Lack of globalism is no defense.
- Conversation
Think Globally, Act Locally
- Popular expression
Although we have told one another on bumper stickers and at
environmental conferences that we must 'think globally and act
locally,' we tend to drift toward mega-solutions. Rather than
get busy, we introduce new terms such as 'sustainable' to apply
to any perceived solution that catches our fancy. Instead of
looking to community, we look to public policy. We hold a global
conference in Rio.
- Wes Jackson, Becoming
Native to This Place
We have to look at things the way they are, painful and overwhelmingly
as that may be, for no healing can begin until we are fully
present to our world, until we learn to sustain the gaze.
- Joanna Macy, World
as Lover, World as Self
Physicists calculate that in about 100 years time we will have
a planetary civilization. And that's what all the chaos is all
about. We are witnessing one of the great transitions in human
history from a fragmented savage Type-0 to a planetary and rather
civilized Type-1. It's quite dangerous the transition. Every
single headline I see in the newspapers is related to the birth
pangs of the birth of a Type-1 civilization.
Michio Kaku, BBC
Interview
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