A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which…

“The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.”

— Lao Tzu

Every day I live above the ground, I happy.

— The Iron Sheik

I'm walking around all over this town, ten feet off the ground, so happy I found you, baby.

— Easton Corbin

“The whole world will be intelligent, educated, and co-operating; things will move faster and faster towards the subjugation of Nature. In the end, wisely…

— H.G. Wells

Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.

— Marianne Williamson

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

— Bertrand Russell

Every day I have spent in Uganda has been beautifully overwhelming; everywhere I have looked, raw, filthy, human need and brokenness have been on…

— Katie Davis

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human…

— Noam Chomsky

So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth.…

— Edgar Guest

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

— Barry Commoner

Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement…

— Janet Malcolm

Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the…

— Toby Hemenway

As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to…

— George Washington Carver

Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other…

— Muhammad Yunus

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

— John Ziman