“Destiny had brought us together for a short precious time”
“I really needed to make some sense of that odd tingling sensation”
“Memories flooded in”
“With wealth in the red, is our growth story dead?”
“May you be blessed, ur ... cursed to live in interesting times”
“We learn and we grow”
“She was the nautical expression of grace, courage, and confidence”
“Her feet were rarely burdened with footwear of any kind, yet they were always strikingly clean”
“When you control your breathing, you control your mind”
“Oh, the inhumanity!”
“I not de golden one, you want me to be”
“Man plans; the gods laugh”
“We zig-zag tacked our way upwind to a pristine isolated patch of shoreline”
“The standard American diet ... is making us fat and killing us slowly”
“Livestock production is climate destruction”
“Mega-monocrop farming has put our farmlands on life support”
“When living creatures are treated like nothing more than widgets in a factory”
“For every one calorie of food we eat, ten calories of fossil fuels are expended in producing it”
“The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk”
“What fool would deliberately starve the Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs?”
“Cities need cars like dogs need fleas”
“With little connection to real wealth”
“If the market told the truth, it would be telling the whole ecological truth”
“We're all on the Titanic — with no captain, no navigator, and engines maxed out”
“Ain't no way to be playin'”
“Fire made us human; fossil fuels made us modern, wealthy, and dominant”
“To listen carefully ... is the purest form of love”
“Microplastic accumulations appear more like a diffuse plastic smog”
“We are Nature — Nature is us; what we do to it, we do to ourselves”
“On which humanity itself perches”
“Follow your heart and use your head to guide you”
“One could easily confuse an unethical corporation for a psychopath”
“Neoliberal globalization has fundamentally altered the economies of the Global South”
“Money games played in the markets is fake wealth”
Tragedy of the Open-Access Commons
“There is no short-term profit incentive in sound environmental stewardship”
“Growth, in a word, appears to be the only sacred doctrine of capitalism”
“One barrel of oil ... contains the energy equivalent of close to five years of one person's hard physical labor”
“Money as wealth is an illusion”
“Don’t people see that we have gradually become a nation of debt slaves?”
“The inspired young workers did not wish to be bothered, because they were finally making great progress”
“We end up buying stuff we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t know, for feelings that don’t last”
“Nothing can forever grow”
“Liberty 2.0”
“We are sleepwalking into despair”
“Connectedness ... is a consciousness very familiar to all islanders”
“In real life, the big fish eats the little fish; that is all”
“Listen to the voice of Aikido. It is not for correcting others; it is for correcting your own mind”
“The logic of the gift is, in fact, deeply eco-logical”
“No one really knows how he came into that big, expensive boat of his”
“It is culture and knowledge that build better societies, not riches”
“Mindfulness and meditation practices are about living our best lives from moment to moment to moment”
“They say that time is money. Nonsense. TIME IS LIFE!”
“Inspired projects are even more fun than fun itself!”
“Traditional Native American cultures ... have generally been despised and ridiculed ... for their voluntary simplicity and social equality”
Simplify Now (and avoid the rush)
“Simplicity breeds clarity”
“Cause every little thing, gonna be alright ...”
“So I guess the whole project was a bust, huh Lua?”
“What the head makes cloudy, the heart makes very clear”
“If the sea gets sick and dies, so will the land — no blue, no green”
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances”
“Optimums over maximums, quality over quantity, better over bigger; eco over ego, we over me”
“From caterpillar to butterfly, we are leaving behind old and severely limiting ways of being, living, and relating to our world”
“On a full planet, we are islanders all”
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“The human condition isn’t a competition”