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Interview with Daniel Quinn, the author of Ishmael. The Man Behind the Curtain". By Wendy du Bow. Per capita, I received more letters from Boulder than any place in the country", says Daniel Quinn, author of the 1992 underground success Ishmael. In response to his call to rethink the beginnings of human history, the agricultural evolution and people's role on Earth, Quinn estimates that he has received about 4,000 letters from readers. I don't considered that false modesty; it's realistic". But enoug...

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When you let go of trying to get more of what you don't really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have." Lynne Twist. The goal of this web site is to reveal the alternatives to consumption (and consequent debt) that are a hidden part of modern culture. The goal is to show how we lose more than our money, the more "stuff" we buy. Whose standard of living is less than that of the US but whose quality of life. Is equal to or greater than the US. One can buy, use up, and th...

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Excerpts from Clutter's Last Stand. Junkicide is a slow, painful strangulation and dying of the senses. Although our brains are still intact, we've simply replaced thinking. With things. We've crowded out creativity with accumulation. We've frozen flexibility with frofusion. We've snapped up so mucy free stuff and bought so many things to keep, store, clean, polish, and protect that we don't have any freedom. The Nine Warning Signs of Junkitis:. 1 UNUSUAL DISCHARGE (from closets and shelves). The well-kn...

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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.". To take up completely. devour, waste, destroy, spend. To cause to disappear or vanish away. To destroy a living being, or more usually a race or tribe by any wasting process. To spend goods or money, especially wastefully; or money, especially wastefully; to waste, squander. In the 18th century, the word was even used as a curse, as in "Consume you! It was at the end of the 19th century that George Bernard shaw wrote in Candida. By Jim Molnar,.

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Excerpts from John Enright's. In Our Face: Impolite Essays on Humanity's War Against our Children and the Earth. Intermedia, Menlo Park, CA, 1993). But a great deal of the suffering [in the world] is "surplus" - not inevitable. Every child will eventually die, but it is not inevitable that hundreds of thousands of children go to bed hungry every night, or that millions die young every year of hunger or hunger-related diseases. And we retreat to resignation: "What can one person do anyway? This [the effec...

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Excerpts from Duane Elgin's Voluntary Simplicity. To live with simplicity is to unburden our lives - to live more lightly, cleanly, aerodynamically.". The Broadness of It]. The nature, manner, and degree of simplification [is] something that each person should decide for himself or herself. Is this 'simplicity' business just another name for poverty? The intention of this way of life is not to dogmatically live with less. It is a more demanding intention of living with balance. Excerpts from Duane Elgin's.

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Books relevant to Living Lightly on the Earth. Don't it always seem to go that we don't know what we've got till it's gone;. They pave paradise and put up a parking lot." Joni Mitchell. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. Browse excerpts from the book. Browse an interview with the author. Browse a large site on the Web inspired by this book. Subscribe to an Ishmael-inspired mailing list. Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich. The Table Where Rich People Sit. Simplify You...

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Living Lightly Related Websites. The Context Institutes Sustainable Culture Information Institute. The Simple Living Journal. Is is possible for a nation to be. Juicy reading: book excerpts. Living Lightly with the Environment. Excerpts from Clutter's Last Stand. Excerpts from Duane Elgin's. Why things bite back. Excerpts from .Impolite Essays.

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Living lightly in the earth's environment. It is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant - and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space.". Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea. A collection of useful and memorable Biodiversity Facts.