Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

The 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.

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.

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.