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“What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.”

Essentials Survival Competition Cooperation

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Doe Lasts Values Community Environment Share Mines Balance Survival Resources Competition Cooperation Ecosystems Canaries

Author:Rebecca Adamson

“In essence, money gives us the calories we need to survive. Over time, we became aware that exchange and cooperation increase our chances for survival. Eventually we create tools to facilitate trade. One of these tools is called money.”

Needs Giving Chance Survival Tools Essence Increase Trade Cooperation Calories Facilitate

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.”

Able Social Process Survival Various Cooperation Engagement Reproduction

Author:Robert Nozick

“Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.”

Needs Humanity Nature Natural Animal Common Benefits Survival Strategy Mutual Cooperation Emulate Mutual Benefit

Book:Basic Ecology

Source: Basic Ecology

“My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .”

“In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.”

Knows Way Ends Life Is Creativity Know How Struggle Conflict Survival Triumph Cooperation Workplace Long Life Aggressors Struggle For Survival

Book:The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

Source: The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

“Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.”

Life Should Humans Has Beens Bits Ability Theory Essentials Survival Capacity Cooperation Suspicious

Author:Daniel Goleman

“It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.”

Humans Self Individual Groups Survival Sufficient Cooperation Palms Flourishing Small Groups Self Sufficient

Book:Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”

Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

“The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul-harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.”

Soul Values Choices Changed Evolution Survival Harmony Responsible Sufficient Cooperation Reverence Requirements Reverence For Life

Author:Gary Zukav

“Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.”

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman