The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work.

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.

The future belongs, not to those who have the most, but to those who do the most with what they have.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.

This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.

How dark are all the ways of god to man!

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.