We asked our friends to give us their "best quotes" for thinking about simplicity and sustainable living. Here's the cream of the crop that we used with the videoconference.
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs |
Gloria Steinem |
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The object of work is living, experience, happiness. All that money can do is buy someone else's work in exchange for our own |
Henry Ford |
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The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run |
Henry David Thoreau |
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Live Simply, so others can Simply Live! |
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Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure |
Piero Ferrucci |
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The mind is always the last to know. |
Bob Stilger |
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Nobody sees a flower -- really -- it is so small it takes time -- we haven't time -- and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. |
Georgia O'Keefe |
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without |
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What many now call "growth" will soon be seen as "accelerated decay |
Dan Fiscus |
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The growth ideology is extremely attractive
politically because it offers a solution to poverty without
requiring the moral disciplines of sharing and population
control. |
Herman Daly |
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. |
Anais Nin |
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Frugality + Simplicity = Liberty |
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Any civilization that can no longer understand the
difference between illusion and reality is at the tail end of its
existence |
John Ralston Saul |
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We've got enough stuff. We need more time |
William Stumpf |
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Since 1948, the level of productivity of the U.S.
worker has more than doubled. In other words, we could now produce our
1948 standard of living in less than half the time. Every time
productivity increases, we are presented with the possibility of either
more free time or more money. We could have chosen the four-hour day. Or a
working year of six months. Or every worker in the United states could now
be taking every other year off from work--with pay. |
Juliet Schor |
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Blessed be nothing. You don't have to take care of it |
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The key ecological act that individuals can make is to reduce their income |
Michael Philips |
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"Normal" is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. |
Ellen Goodman |
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When they start building a new world, I'm afraid the job will go to the lowest bidder |
Ashleigh Brilliant |
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