Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.
Cree Indian Proverb
In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.
Richard Wilkinson
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
Unknown
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
Marshall McLuhan
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.
Nicholas Johnson
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
Elise Boulding
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacker
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift.... The hangover comes the day after.
Joyce Brothers
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Dennis Gabor
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
Joyce Brothers