Our Task Is To Look

An Attitude To Life Which Seeks Fulfillment In The Single-minded Pursuit Of Wealth - In Short, Materialism - Does Not Fit Into This World, Because It Contains Within Itself No Limiting Principle, While The Environment In Which It Is Placed Is Strictly Limited.

No Degree Of Prosperity Could Justify The Accumulation Of Large Amounts Of Highly Toxic Substances Which Nobody Knows How To Make Safe And Which Remain An Incalculable Danger To The Whole Of Creation For Historical Or Even Geological Ages. To Do Such A Thing Is A Transgression Against Life Itself, A Transgression Infinitely More Serious Than Any Crime Perpetrated By Man. The Idea That A Civilization Could Sustain Itself On Such A Transgression Is An Ethical, Spiritual, And Metaphysical Monstrosity. It Means Conducting The Economical Affairs Of Man As If People Did Not Matter At All.

Man Is Small, And, Therefore, Small Is Beautiful.

Wisdom Demands A New Orientation Of Science And Technology Toward The Organic, The Gentle, The Elegant And Beautiful.

If Greed Were Not The Master Of Modern Man, How Could It Be That The Frenzy Of Economic Activity Does Not Abate As Higher Standards Of Living Are Attained, And That It Is Precisely The Richest Societies Which Pursue Their Economic Advantage With The Greatest Ruthlessness?