Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

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

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.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.