Oikos Quotes

#1. The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, the word for home.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#2. Human beings, in their settled condition, are animated by oikophilia: the love of the oikos, which means not only the home but the people contained in it, and the surrounding settlements that endow that home with lasting contours and an enduring smile.

Roger Scruton

#3. I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.

Grace Meng

#4. My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

Frederick The Great

#5. The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

Samuel Butler

#6. It is our very search, our lust for the miraculous and magical, that hides from us the truth that simply to be, simply to know I am, is already the miracle that we seek. Everything, as it is, is perfect, but you must stop seeing it as if in a mirror, as if in a dream.

Albert Low

#7. It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson