To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

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.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

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

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .