As we work with the practicalities of such a positive future, villages seem increasingly an appropriate cultural size to work with. A family is too small to express all of the values in practical ways. For example, most of us are too dependent on the culture at large to create right livelihoods, and steward ecosystems. Even large communities do not have the scale necessary. Cities are too big to take on at this time.
Villages seem a manageable dimension.
In fact, many people and communities around the planet are intentionally setting out to build Planetary Villages. In the pamphlet, Conversations with John, he anticipates that the reemergence of villages will be critical to the next step in human evolution. For David, villages are not so much physical places as a reuniting of the human spirit with the spirit of the Earth, a reidentification of communities of people with the places they inhabit. He anticipated that the consciousness of the villagers would include the planet as a whole in their identity - an identity that keeps in mind how everything that occurs in the village affects the whole earth. A village is an incarnation not only of human will, intent, and social structure, but of the character and quality of the land.