[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have any responsibility for the preservation of a decent balance in nature, for the preservation of rare species, or even for the indefinite continuance of his race?

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.