Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

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

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.