The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.