To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.