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Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money can not be eaten. ~ Cree Indian Prophecy ~

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~

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SIMPLICITY

I think we can already see the conflict of attitude which will decide our future. On one side, I see people who think they can cope with our... crisis by the methods current... I call them the people of the forward stamped.

On the other side, there are people in search of a new lifestyle, who seek to return to certain basic truths about man and his world. I call them homecomers.

~E.F. Schumacher ~

The soul of our quest for the simple life reflects a need to re-establish control of our lives. ~ Peter Fossel ~

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AGRICULTURE

No occupation is do delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden. ~ Thomas Jefferson ~

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third is by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. ~ Benjamin Franklin

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VISION

No one is less ready for tomorrow than the person who holds the most rigid beliefs about what tomorrow will contain. ~ Watts Wacker ~

In the beginning of a change, The Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~ Mark Twain ~

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CULTURE

While we progress in technology we lack humanity. ~ Bumpersticker ~

Most people are on the world, not in it--have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them--undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching, but separate. ~ John Muir ~

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LIFE

You can't be afraid of what people will say. You have to be brave and take risks.

~ Charles M. Schulz ~

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ~ Thomas Paine ~

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