Simple living Quotes

“The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day”

“Even if through simple living and rigorous recycling you stopped your own average Americans annual one ton of garbage production, your per capita share of the industrial waste produced in the US is still almost twenty-six tons. That's thirty-seven times as much waste as you were able to save by eliminating a full 100 percent of your personal waste. Industrialism itself is what has to stop.”

“They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.”

“My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.”

“I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.”

“What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.”

“Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?”

“Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.”

“I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.”