Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi, quoted in E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner
of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to
similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like
locusts. ~Mahatma Gandhi
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the
commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to
continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's
World Trade Center every two weeks. ~Environmental Defense Fund
advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~Author Unknown
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966