Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.
E. F. SchumacherThe generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.
E. F. SchumacherA way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.
E. F. SchumacherEvery increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear
E. F. SchumacherFew can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
E. F. Schumacher