Satish Kumar Quotes

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• Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim,…
• If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.
• The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated
• Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
• Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world
• Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever
• What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat
• We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
• Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
• That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.
• The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving…
• If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world…
• Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to…
• One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey,…
• It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to…
• I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.
• How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree…
• We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always…
• We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence,…
• Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological…

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