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If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)... Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.

— Murray Bookchin The Ecology of Freedom (1982)

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If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

The Ecology of Freedom (1982)

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

What Is Social Ecology? (1984)

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

Ecology and Revolutionary Thought (1965)

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

And that's what socialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed.

Anarchism in America (1983)

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