While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.