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.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.