Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

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

Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

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

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

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

Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other harshly and were cold of heart.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!

The good thing about living like me is everywhere you go is a step up.

I'd tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

I am on the longest, craziest journey of my life and loving every minute of it! Who would have known a few plants would take you around the world!

It is so surreal to come into a shop and see pictures of myself everywhere and hear my album playing.

All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.