David Brin Quotes

People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.

We all live in a little Village.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

We're going to make that Lone Star shine again.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.

When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.

In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere.

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?