E. F. Schumacher Quotes

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

You want to live in harmony with nature and with each other.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.

I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level.

As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

I would like to say, historically, from the very beginning, our people have time and again expressed the need for people to live in harmony with the creator, the mother earth, fellow man, and respect our brother's vision. In the past and the present, we have been respon-sible for the greatest gains; cultivated foods and medicines; democratic government, and many other areas of concern.

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable link between peace with creation and peace among men.