Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every thing that tends to insulate the individual- to surround him with barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state; — tends to true union as well as greatness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson1

I am in a world which is in me.

— Paul Valery

It seems obvious to me now—though I was slow coming to the conclusion—that the institution of private property, the dispersion of power and importance that goes with it, has been a main factor in producing that limited amount of free-andequalness which Marx hoped to render infinite by abolishing this institution.

— Max Eastman

For what property have I in that which another may by right take when he pleases to himself?

— John Locke

I am striving … to discover whether man still has a place in this tangle; whether he still has any authority among these colossal masses in movement; whether he still can exert any force whatever on the statistics which are slipping from his hands into the abstract and the unreal. Can he have a place, authority, and the possibility of action on a better basis than ill-founded declarations of hope or blind acts of unreasonable faith?

— Jacques Ellul

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Noter

Preface

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

There’s now a school of thought that the true home of nature is the modern city, not the countryside, because of a remarkable shift of biodiversity over the past few decades. Animals and plants appear to be conquering the cities simply because the overfertlised soil of the country is becoming an ever-more inhospitable place for them.

A  |  B  |  C  |  D  |  E
F  |  G  |  H  |  I  |  J
K  |  L  |  M  |  N  |  O
P  |  Q  |  R  |  S  |  T
U  |  V  |  W

A

Abortion issue, 140, 154, 208–11

Adverse possession, 138