Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear
E. F. SchumacherAn entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
E. F. SchumacherModern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
E. F. SchumacherMuch 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.
E. F. Schumacher