Joseph Monninger Quotes

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.

People are being overwhelmed with social issues, political problems and economic problems - and this notion of giving everything up and going to live off-grid and to have a simpler way of life is quite attractive.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.

I live a pretty simple life.

In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.

I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

My material life is simple.

I haven't lived in Sweden since I was a teenager. We lived in southern Sweden, about two hours north of Copenhagen, where my family's home base has been since 1970. Our parents bought a schoolhouse in preparation for self-sufficient living. They wanted to create a place to do all the things they believed in.

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

I live a very simple life.

I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.