A 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.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

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

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.

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.