" To live more voluntarily is to live more deliberately, intentionally, and purposefully —in short, it is to live more consciously ... To live more simply is to live in harmony with the vast ecology of all life . It is to live with balance—taking no more than we require and, at the same time, giving fully of ourselves ... Voluntary simplicity is a ... See more

However much we divide, count, sort, or classify into particular things and events, this is no more than a way of thinking about the world: it is never actually divided . A basic problem we’ve got to go through first is to understand that there are no such things as things—that is to say, separate things or separate events ... No one thing or featu... See more

"Let’s take the bees and the flowers. In a world of no bees there’s no flowers; in a world of no flowers—no bees. Because bees and flowers are aspects of the same organism, or organization. They go together, so I invent the word 'goeswith' to indicate organic relationships. And we as human beings, obviously, we 'gowith' an enormous cosmos of geolog... See more