We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.

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.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO.

I hate dates. I sit at home all day, and I don't fart once. I go on a date and I've got twenty in the bank straight away.

Many parts of a pine tree are edible.

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.