In a single lifetime, the human population will have grown from two billion to more than eight billion. Never before in human history has a single generation witnessed such explosive change. It seems self-evident that the policies we adopt, the decisions we make, and the strategies we pursue over the next decade or two will determine the future of our species and the trajectory of the planet for the foreseeable future. That is an awesome responsibility, to say the least. It is also a huge opportunity.

- Stuart Hart, Author of Capitalism at the Crossroads

The illusion is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which it has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.

- E.F. Schumacher, Author of Small is Beautiful

The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.

- Wendell Berry, Author of The Art of the Commonplace