“Economy and environment are the same thing. That is the rule of nature.”

“The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.”

“Man aspires to govern nature, but the more one studies ecology, themore absurd it seems to speak of any one feature of an organism, or ofan organism/environment field, as governing or ruling others.”

“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.”

“A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.”

“In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees are a waste. Trees are extravagant. Tree trunks are standing monuments to futile competition - futile if we think in terms of a planed economy. But the natural economy is not planned. Individual plants compete with other plants, of the same and other species, and the result is that they grow taller and taller, far taller than any planner would recommend.”