Quotes from Eustace Conway.

I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular.  The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build my fire in a circle. The life cycles of plants and animals are circular. I live outside where I can see this.  The ancient people understood that  our world is a circle, but we modern people have lost site of that. I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.

Do people live in circles today? No. They live in boxes.  They wake up every morning in a box of their bedrooms because a box next to them started making beeping noises to tell them it was time to get up. They eat their breakfast out of a box and then they throw that box away into another box.  Then they leave the box where they live and get into another box with wheels and drive to work, which is just another big box broken into little cubicle boxes where a bunch of people spend their days sitting and staring at the computer boxes in front of them. When the day is over, everyone gets into the box with wheels again and goes home to the house boxes and spends the evening staring at the television boxes for entertainment. They get their music from a box, they get their food from a box, they keep their clothing in a box, they live their lives in a box.

Break out of the box!,,, This not the way humanity lived for thousands of years. <p 19>

Man, you guys have a lot of material possesions. Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. <p 69>

Teach people how to achieve freedom from what his grandfather called the "softening and vision-curbing influences of the city. Train them to pay attention to their choices.  Reduce,Reuse and recycle are good ideas but those three concepts should only be the last resort.  What you really need to focus on are the other words that begin with R-Reconsider and Refuse.  Before you even acquire a disposable good, ask yourself why you need this consumer product. And then turn it down. Refuse it.  You can. <p 75>

The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. ISBN 0-670-03086-4