Quote

By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.

E. F. Schumacher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

E. F. Schumacher
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: August 16
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Economist
Philosopher
Statistician
Bonn
Germany
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
Way
Tree
Regeneration
Ways
Wildlife
Least
Conservation
Beauty
Pollution
Moral
Wilderness
Conserved
Spiritual
Cultural
Decreased
Means
Landscape
Enhanced
Mean
Trees
Landscapes

More quotes by E. F. Schumacher

Image
Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
There are poor societies which have too little but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed
E. F. Schumacher
Image
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters
E. F. Schumacher
Image
Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.
E. F. Schumacher
Image
To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.
E. F. Schumacher