Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

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

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

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.