The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

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.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

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

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

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