Thought of the Day

“A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand.”

-Dorothy L. Sayers

Thought for the Day

”If we grew our own food,
we wouldn’t waste a third of it as we do today.
If we made our own tables and chairs,
we wouldn’t throw them out
the moment we changed the interior decor.
If we had to clean our own drinking water,
we probably wouldn’t contaminate it.”

Mark Boyle
founder of
The Freeconomy Community

Thought for the Day

“A man’s life does not consist
in the abundance of his possessions”

~ Jesus Christ

“…our bigger-and-better society
is now like a hypochondriac,
so obsessed with its own economic health
as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy”

~ Aldo Leopold
4 March 1948
A Sand County Almanac

“The gap in our economy
is between what we have
and what we think we ought to have
and that is a moral problem,
not an economic one.

~ Paul Heyne

“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings
becomes more difficult with every year.”

~ E. B. White

“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,
whether clothes or friends…
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”

~ Henry David Thoreau