Murray Bookchin

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

— Murray Bookchin

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

— Murray Bookchin

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

— Murray Bookchin

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

— Murray Bookchin

Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything, partial 'solutions' serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes.

— Murray Bookchin

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

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

— Murray Bookchin