Frugality, Voluntary Poverty,
Simple Living,
The Simple Life
Quotes for Those that Love
Gardens, Gardening and the Green Way
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
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The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be
joyful, rich,
and creative, it isn't simple.
- Doris Janzen Longacre
The little things? The little
moments? They aren't little.
- John Zabat-Zinn
People say "I want
peace." If you remove I (ego), and your
want (desire), you are left with peace.
- Satya Sai Baba
I'm living so far beyond my income
that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- E. E. Cummings
With a few flowers in my garden, half
a dozen pictures
and some books, I live without envy.
- Lope de Vega
Abandon the urge to simplify
everything, to look for formulas and easy answers,
and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of
life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are
inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
- M. Scott Peck
Making the simple complicated is
commonplace;
making the complicated simple,
awesomely simple, that's creativity.
- Charles Mingus
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
- Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Most of the critical things in life, which become
the starting points for human destiny, are little things.
- R. Smith
When speech comes from a quiet heart,
it has the strength of the orchid,
and the fragrance of rock.
- Stephen Mitchell, Four Watercolors by Tao-chi
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have
into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos
to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes
sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
Enjoy the little things, for one day
you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
A taste
for simplicity cannot last for long.
- Eugene Delacroix
Spirituality - Quotes for Gardeners
We learn from our gardens to deal
with the most
urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
- Wendell Berry
You have succeeded in
life when all you really want
is only what you really need.
- Vernon Howard
For fast acting relief; try slowing
down.
- Lily Tomlin
Our affluent society
contains those of talent and insight who are
driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the
desolation of an empty abundance.
- Michael Harrington
Too many people spend money they
haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
When I dance, I dance, when I sleep,
I sleep; yes, and when I walk
alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters
for some part of the time, for some other part I lead them back
again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude,
to myself.
- Montaigne
Material blessings,
when they pay beyond the category of need,
are weirdly fruitful of headache.
- Philip Wylie
A garden has a curious innocent way
of consuming
cash while all the time you are under the illusion that
you are spending nothing.
- Esther Meynell
Desired substance, things, patterns,
or sequences of experience that
are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions
of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such
that more of the something is always better than less of the something.
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has
optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic.
To fall below that value is to be deprived.
Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature, p. 59
The aspects of things that are most
important to us are hidden
because of their simplicity and familiarity.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness,
as that.... I
might be master at last of a small house and a large
garden, with very moderate
conveniences joined to them, and
there dedicate the remainder of my life to the
culture of them
and the study of nature.
- Abraham Cowley
Precisely the least, the softest,
lightest, a lizard's rustling,
a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way
of the best happiness.
- Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
We struggle with the complexities
and avoid the simplicities.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Live simply, so others may simply
live.
- Gandhi
Frugality is one of the most
beautiful and joyful words in the English
language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and
enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in
having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
- Elise Boulding
The point in life is to know what's
enough--
why envy those otherwold immortals?
With the happiness held in one inch-square heart
you can fill the whole space between heaven and earth.
- Gensei (1623-1668), Poem Without a Category
The Enlightened Heart, Edited by Stephen Mitchell, p. 86
Making simple matters complex or complex matters simple are both bad gardening techniques.
Simplifying our relations to things
sometimes allows us to live
more complex intellectual and emotional lives.
Repetition and diversification
are Nature's formulas.
Simplifying and simplicity are never simple matters.
The empty garden is already full.
The happiest gardeners have simply learned how to relax.
The simplest garden is never simple.
It takes four seasons to know one year.
Complexity is closer to the Truth.
Diversity, multiplicity, relations,
combinations, mixtures, complexity -
rarely just one process or one thing.
Location, location, location ... is also true for plants.
Never just One: fruit, a hoe, the moving Sun.
- Michael P. Garofalo, Pulling Onions
The simplest things give me ideas.
- Joan Miro
To find the universal elements
enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter. . .to be thrilled by the
stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring -
these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
- John Burroughs
The point of philosophy is to start
with something so simple
as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something
so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell
If you have a garden
and a library, you have everything you need.
- Cicero
Live simply that others
might simply live.
- Elizabeth Seaton
Nature uses as little as possible of
anything.
- Johannes Keppler
Reduce the complexity of life by
eliminating the needless wants of life,
and the labors of life reduce themselves.
- Edwin Teale
Simplicity is the essence of
happiness.
- Cedric Bledsoe
While washing the dishes one should
only be washing the dishes, which
means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of
the fact that one is washing the dishes. At first glance, that might seem a
little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely
the point. the fact that I am standing there and washing the dishes is a
wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath,
conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.
there's no way I can be tossed around mindlessly like a bottle slapped
here and there on the waves.
- Thich Nat Hahn
A little
simplification would be the first step
toward rational living, I think.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want to feel rich,
just count all the things you have
that money can't buy.
Straightforwardness
and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother;
it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people
primitiveness and squalor.
- Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
I have come to terms with the future. From this day
onward I will walk
easy on the earth. Plant trees. Kill no living things. Live in
harmony
with all creatures. I will restore the earth where I am. Use no more
of its resources than I need. And listen, listen to what it is telling me.
- M.J. Slim Hooey
Things should be as simple as
possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
The day, water, sun, moon,
night --
I do not have to purchase
these things with money.
- Plautus
He who buys what he does not need
steals from himself.
- Author Unknown
I like to
walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world;
but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal
possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
- George Santayana
An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
James Thomson, 1700-1748, Spring
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
To know you have enough is to be
rich.
- Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly
happiness
composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had
from
a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
- James
Russell Lowell
Seek simplicity and distrust it.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Besides the
noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art
of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the
elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
A man must be able to cut a knot, for
everything cannot be
untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential
from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything
cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able
to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag.
Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
- Wendell Berry
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, 1973
Practically speaking, a life that is
vowed to simplicity, appropriate
boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and
lots of walking brings us close to the actual existing world
and its wholeness.
- Gary Snyder
Voluntary simplicity means going
fewer places in one day
rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less
so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
- John Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go There You Are, p.
69
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at
home, by practices that
will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind
precisely against what is wrong with us.... What I am saying is that if
we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth,
then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in
our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change
our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of the earth,
but also the earth's ability to produce.
- Wendell Berry, 1970
If you mind isn't clouded by
unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your life.
- Wu-Men
A garden isn't meant to be useful.
It's for joy.
- Rumer Godden
Happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
- William Cowper
Reading to Uplift a Gardener's Spirits
The day, water, sun, moon, night
...
I do not have to purchase these things with money.
- Plautus, 160 BCE
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce
the greatest effects with the most limited means.
- Heinrich Heine
Life is
really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
You can't force simplicity; but you can invite it in by finding as
much
richness
as possible in the few things at hand. Simplicity
doesn't mean meagerness
but rather a certain kind of richness,
the fullness that appears when we
stop stuffing the world with things.
- Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, p. 293
The ability to simplify means to
eliminate
the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993
Man is an over-complicated organism. If
he is doomed to extinction
he will die out for want of simplicity.
- Ezra Pound
If the art of gardening is at last to
turn back from her extravagances and
rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly
before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to
desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and
reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart,
and understanding alike.
- Schiller
Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
- William Shakespeare
Nothing is as simple
as we hope it will be.
Jim Horning
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy,
even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
- E.B. White
In the hope of reaching the moon
men fail to see the flowers
that blossom at their feet.
- Albert Schweitzer
Simplicity, clarity, singleness:
these are the attributes
that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
- Richard Halloway
Our guiding idea has been, other
things being equal,
complexity in a model indicates vacuousness
rather than sophistication.
- J. M. Maciejowski, The Modelling of Systems with Small
Observation Sets, 1978
Simple pleasures are the last refuge
of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the
fewness of my wants.
- J. Botherton
The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to
appreciate and use it.
- Goethe
In a single sentence the moral is:
admit that complexity
always increases, first from the model you fit to the data,
thence to the model you use to think about and plan
about the experiment and its analysis, and thence
to the true situation.
- Tukey
Plurality should not be assumed
without necessity.
- William of Ockham
You can never get enough of what
you don't need to make you happy.
- Eric Hoffer
What is commonest and cheapest and
nearest and easiest is Me,
Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,
Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill,
Scattering if freely forever.
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855, I Celebrate
Myself, Line 252
It is the sweet, simple things of
life
which are the real ones after all.
- Laura IngallsWilder
To live content with small means, to
seek elegance rather
than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy,
not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think
quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds,
to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully,
do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to
let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up
through the common, this is to be my symphony.
- William Henry Channing
Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to
perceive paradise gardening as
a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we might go so far
as to define this paradise as the place where art is indistinguishable from life,
and where simplicity is codified as the best path for achieving happiness.
- Jim Nollman, Why We Garden, 1994, p. 57.
How refreshing, the whinny of a packhorse
unloaded of everything!
- Zen saying
I go
about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love,
work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
- Sherwood Anderson
Complexity
- Quotes for Gardeners
I'd like to live as a poor man
with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso
The world has to learn that the
actual pleasure derived from
material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less
even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Less is more.
- Mies van der Rohe
Less is a bore.
- Robert Venturi
The noble simplicity in the works of
nature only too often
originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
- G.C. Lichtenberg
If you
cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding
a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in
fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought
a lifetime of days.
- Annie Dillard
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children,
or at any age, but it is
not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing
of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect
of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that
imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and
savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves
sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine
impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the
lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.
- Charles Horton Cooley
The best things in life are nearest:
Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes,
certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Be wary of any enterprise that
requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest
fulfillment
only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent
crossing and selection. In the span of my own lifetime I have observed
such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically
to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles
of simple and rational living. We must return to nature and nature's god.
- Luther Burbank, 1849-1926
Simplicity is the ultimate
sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Any intelligent fool can make things
bigger, more complex,
and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of
courage--to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacker
Besides the noble art of getting
things done, there is the noble
art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists
in the elimination of nonessentials.
- Lin Yu Tang
Quotes for Gardeners
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A Collection Growing to Over 2,700 Quotes, Arranged by 130 Topics
Many of the Documents Include Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
Two wings lift a person up from
earthly concerns:
Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.
- Thomas Kempis
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow
Far more than herbs and flowers -
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,
And joy for weary hours.
Life is beautiful in its simplicity.
- Thomas Matthiessen, 1993
Simplicity of character is no
hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.
- John Morley
But there is a spirituality that is
more like a lowly emanation from
the most humble and earthbound things; that of a particular house,
a garden, a neighborhood, a grove of trees, a pristine beach, a holy
well, a field of wheat. Here spirituality is indistinguishable from
enchantment, for in an enchanted world the things of nature and
even of culture reek of holiness. Enchantment is nothing more
than spirituality deeply rooted in the earth.
- Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, p. 340
You can't have everything; where
would you put it?
- Steven Wright
Teach us delight in the simple
things,
And mirth that has no bitter springs;
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And love to all men beneath the sun.
- Rudyard Kipling, 1865 - 1936
Go confidently in the direction of
your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will
not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
- Henry David Thoreau
The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of
more
importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
- Thomas More
The pure and simple truth is rarely
pure, and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living
more lightly
with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as
defined uniquely by each individual. You will find people living
simply in large cities, rural areas and everything in between.
- Linda Breen Pierce, The Simplicity Resource Site
The whole is simpler than the sum of
its parts.
- Willard Gibbs
For peace of mind, we need to resign
as general manager of the universe.
- Larry Eisenberg
My themes will not be far-fetched.
I will tell of
homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
- Henry David Thoreau
whatever's merely
willful,
and not miraculous
(be never it so skilful)
must wither fail and cease
- but better than to grow
beauty knows no
- E. E. Cummings
It's not a single idea, but many ideas and
attitudes, including a reverence
for nature and a preference for country life; a desire for maximum
personal self-reliance and creative leisure; a concern for family nurture
and community cohesion; a certain hostility toward luxury; a belief that
the primary reward of work should be well-being rather than money; a
certain nostalgia for the supposed simplicities of the past and an anxiety
about the technological and bureaucratic complexities of the present
and the future; and a taste for the plain and functional.
- Countryside
Magazine and Small Stock Journal - Philosophy
Everything is complex
and everything is simple. The rose has
no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no
thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more
complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand
it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing?
The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.
- Andre Comte-Sponville, A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues,
p. 150
To simplify complications is the
first essential of success.
- George Earle Buckle
Part of the problem today is that we
have a surplus
of simple answers and a shortage of simple problems.
- Syracuse Herald
Sitting - Quotes for Gardeners
He lacks much who has no aptitude for
idleness.
- Louise Beebe Wilder
Our life
is frittered away by detail.
Simplify, simplify, simplify!
Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.
- Henry David Thoreau
I believe we would be happier to have
a personal revolution in our
individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct
thinking. It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile,
the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest,
and living close to nature. There are not hothouse blossoms that
can compare in beauty and fragrance with my bouquet of wildflowers.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Learning to produce our own food is
essential if we are
to ever truly take control of our own lives. It liberates
us from the role of passive consumer, remote from real
decisions, alienated from nature.
- Primal Seeds
One must first seek to love plants
and nature, and then to
cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with
little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary
ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly
with the novice.
- Libery Hyde Bailey
However mean your life is, meet it
and live it: do not shun it
and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,
like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,
whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change.
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Tao of Tsu-jan [i.e.,
being true to one's nature] is like a tree.
The more it grows (to have plenty), the more distant it is from the
roots; the less it grows (to have little), the less distant it is from
the roots. If one always increases, then one becomes removed
from the true essence.
- Ariane Rump, Commentary on the Lao Tsu by Wang Pi
Maybe a person's time
would be as well spent raising food
as raising money to buy food.
- Frank A. Clark
Everything is both simpler than we can
imagine,
and more complicated that we can conceive.
- Goethe
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
- Ionesco
Voluntary Poverty
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Annotated Walden. Walden; or, Life in the Woods.
Together with "Civil
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Awakening Earth and the Millennium Project
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Ontario, Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1974.
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The Beardstown Ladies' Guide to Smart Spending for Big Savings: How to Save for a Rainy
Day without
Sacrificing Your Lifestyle. By The Beardstown Ladies'
Investment Club with Robin Dellabough. New York,
Hyperion, 1997. ISBN:
0-7868-8268-9. 287 pages, index, resource guide, worksheets.
The Book of Unfettered Living
By Sven E. Lennartz.
Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex
World. By Linda Breen Pierce.
Gallagher Press, 2000.
Chop Wood Carry Water: A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life.
Edited by Rick Fields,
Peggy Taylor, Rex Weyler, and Rick Ingrasci. Editors
of New Age Journal. Los Angeles, California, Jeremy P.
Tarcher, Inc., 1984. 287
pages, numerous reading lists. ISBN: 0-874-77209-5.
Conscious Choice: The Journal of Ecology &
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Cut Your Spending in Half Without Settling for Less. By the Editors
of Rodale Press. Emmaus, PA,
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Getting a Life: Real Lives Transformed by "Your Money or Your Life."
By Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller.
New York, Viking, 1997. ISBN:
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How to Want What You Have: Discovering the Magic and Grandeur of Ordinary
Existence. By Timothy Miller.
New York, Avon Books, 1995.
265 pages, reading list.
The Hunger for More. By Laurence Shames. New York, Times Books, 1989.
Islandia.
By Austin Tappan Wright. Published in 1942. "...
the best vision I know of a life in which high culture
co-exists with low
technology."
The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed, and Overworked.
By Ernie J.Zelinski.
Berkeley, California, Ten Speed Press, 1997.
First Edition, 1991. Third Edition, 1997. 209 pages, illustrations.
ISBN: 0-89815-914-8.
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Wholeness in a Chaotic World. By Joel Levey
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Less Is More: The Art of Voluntary Poverty. An anthology of
ancient and modern voices raised in praise of simplicity.
Selected and edited by Goldian
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An outstanding collection of quotes,
epigrams, and wisdom regarding
living a simpler life, ethical poverty, plain living, moderation, the ascetic aesthetic,
temperance, high minded ordinariness.
Living Cheaply with Style: Live Better and Spend Less. By Ernest
Callenbach. Ronin Publishing, Inc., Box 1035
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Herald Press, 1980. 294 pages. A pattern for
living with less and a wealth of
practical suggestions from the worldwide experiences of the Mennonites.
Introduction
by Ronald J. Sider.
Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down and Enjoying More.
By Elaine St. James. Hyperion, 1996.
Money and the Meaning of Life. By Jacob Needleman. New York,
Doubleday, 1991.
Muddling Toward Frugality. By Warren Johnson. San Francisco,
Sierra Club Books, 1978.
Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics: Lifestyles for Self-discovery.
By Marsha Sinetar. Paulist Press, 1986.
The Penny Pincher's Almanac Handbook for Modern Frugality. By
Dean King and
the Editors of The Penny Pincher's Almanac. New York,
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Plain and Simple. By Sue Bender. San Francisco, Harper San Francisco,
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Pulling Onions. The quips and
observations of a gardener from Red Bluff, California.
Readings to Uplift a Gardener's
Spirits. A bibliography by Mike
Garofalo.
A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence.
By Ferenc Maté. Albatross Publishing, 1993.
The Re-Enhancement of Everyday Life. By Thomas Moore. New
York, Harper Collins,
1996. 396p.
The Simple Life. By David Shi. New York, Oxford University
Press, 1985. A scholarly
and readable study of the history of the
idea of simplicity in American culture.
The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living.
By Janet Luhrs. Publisher of the Simple Living Journal.
New York, Broadway Books, 1997.
442 pages, index, reading lists.
ISBN: 0-553-06796-6.
Strategies, stories, resources, inspiration.
Simple Living: The Journal of Voluntary
Simplicity.
Simple Living: One Couple's Search for a Better Life. By Frank
Levering and Wanda
Urbanska. New York, Viking, 1992.
Simplicity: Notes, Stories and Exercises for Developing Unimaginable Wealth.
By
Mark Burch. New Society Publishers, 1995.
The Simplicity Resource Guide By
Linda Breen Pierce. This resource guide includes essays, book
reviews, links, and information on publications and resources on voluntary simplicity and
simple living.
Small is Beautiful. By E. F. Schumacher. New York, Harper
and Row, 1973.
The Spirited Walker: Fitness Walking for Clarity, Balance, and Spiritual
Connection.
By Carolyn Scott Kortge. San Francisco,
HarperSanFrancisco, 1998. 253 pages, index. notes.
ISBN:
0-06-064736-1. Excellent advice on walking with full consciousness and
vibrant energy.
Many avid gardeners are also regular walkers.
Sustainable Culture Information Service by Context
Institute
Unconventional Ideas A
philosophical toolkit to help people free themselves from the mainstream
American dream.
Voluntary Simplicity. By Duane Elgin. Full Title:
Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that
is Outwardly Simple,
Inwardly Rich.
Revised Edition. Quill, William Morrow, New York, 1981, 1993.
240 pages,
index, survey, and suggested readings. ISBN: 0-688-12119-5.
Voluntary
Simplicity: Web Resources
Voluntary Simplicity Resources
Wealth on Minimal Wage. By James Steamer. Chicago, Dearborn Financial
Publishing, Inc.,
1997. 203 pages, index. ISBN: 0-7931-2240-6.
Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving
Financial
Independence. By Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin. New York, Penguin Books, 1992.
350
pages. ISBN: 0-1401-6715-3.
Spirituality and Concerns of the Soul
Simplicity and the Simple Life
Pulling
Onions
Quips
and Observations by Michael P. Garofalo
Haiku Poetry - Links and References
Cliches for Gardeners and Farmers
The
History of Gardening Timeline
From
Ancient Times to the 20th Century
Short Poems and Haiku by Michael P. Garofalo
Quotes for Gardeners
Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips,
Cliches, Adages, Wisdom
A
Collection Growing to Over 2,700 Quotes, Arranged by 130 Topics
Many
of the Documents Include Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled
by Michael P. Garofalo
Distributed on the Internet by Michael P. Garofalo
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Pulling Onions by Michael P. Garofalo
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