Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.
The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.
