All Satish Kumar Quotes
- 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,… Across
- If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers. Consumers
- The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated Busy
- Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. Art
- Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world Balance
- Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever Economy
- What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat Call
- We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused Abused
- Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth Best
- That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism. 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… Air
- 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… Enlightenment
- 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… Death
- 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,… Beings
- 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… All
- I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey. Both
- 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… Church
- 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… Achieve
- 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,… Acts
- 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… All