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“Far too often we’ve let humanity become a commodity that serves us along the way, rather than an asset that enriches our journey.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged.

— David W. Orr

“Why is it that the unwanted things come up of their own but the things of substance, of use, and of value need efforts…

— Girdhar Joshi

“No matter what stage you are in, acknowledging that our possessions, homes, and affairs can be problematic to those we leave behind is the…

— Lisa J. Shultz

“We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity.”

— Bryant McGill

“We live in a global economy where voracious political and corporate greed has turned your life into a disposable commodity to be used and…

— Martin Yate

“Isn’t it curious how in so many of our pastimes and hobbies we play at supplying one or another of our fundamentally creauturely needs—for…

— Michael Pollan

“What other nations fail to recognize in us--our consumerism--is that we don't simply want to own everything, we want to be everything.”

— J. Andrew Schrecker

“The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid others might pick…

— Oscar Wilde

“Now more than ever we are all becoming more aware about the need to conserve our precious living heritage.”

— Steve Irwin

“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that…

— William Wordsworth

“A great measure of the real value of the things we have is how we feel when such things become scarce and absent in…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah