Man Is Small, And, Therefore,

There Can Be Nothing Sacred In Something That Has A Price.

Modern Economic Thinking...is Peculiarly Unable To Consider The Long Term And To Appreciate Man's Dependence On The Natural World.

I Cannot Predict The Wind But I Can Have My Sail Ready.

Scientific And Technological "solutions" Which Poison The Environment Or Degrade The Social Structure And Man Himself Are Of No Benefit, No Matter How Brilliantly Conceived Or How Great Their Superficial Attraction.

I Started By Saying That One Of The Most Fateful Errors Of Our Age Is The Belief That The Problem Of Production Has Been Solved. This Illusion, I Suggested, Is Mainly Due To Our Inability To Recognize That The Modern Industrial System, With All Its Intellectual Sophistication, Consumes The Very Basis On Which Is Has Been Erected. To Use The Language Of The Economist, It Lives On Irreplaceable Capital Which It Cheerfully Treats As Income.