But intending to understand ten things, you actually do not understand even one. If you know a hundred flowers you do not “know” a single one.

Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What's wrong with a growth rate of 0%? Isn't this a rather stable kind of economics? Could there be anything better than living simply and taking it easy?

Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should create.Doctors should first determine at the fundamental level what it is that human beings depend on for life...
Modern scientific agriculture, on the other hand, has no such vision. Research wanders about aimlessly, each researcher seeing just one part of the infinite array of natural factors which affect harvest yields.
Even though it is the same quarter acre, the farmer must grow his crops differently each year in accordance with variations in weather, insect populations, the condition of the soil, and many other natural factors. Nature is everywhere in perpetual motion; conditions are never exactly the same in any two years.
Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experiences. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be closer to the source of things than trade or manufacturing, and the farmer was said to be "the cupbearer of the gods." He was always able to get by somehow or other and have enough to eat.

Più la gente fa, più la società si sviluppa, più aumentano i problemi. La crescente devastazione della natura, l’esaurimento delle risorse, l’ansia dello spirito umano, tutte queste cose sono state provocate e diffuse dal tentativo dell’umanità di realizzare qualcosa. In origine non c’era nessuna ragione per progredire e non c’era nulla che dovesse essere fatto. Siamo arrivati al punto in cui non abbiamo altra via che portare avanti un movimento che non porti avanti niente.

We can never know the answers to great spiritual questions, but it's all right not to understand. We have been born and are living on the earth to face directly the reality of living.