In the sixties, you could always insult a guy by calling him “plastic.” It meant he was phony or superficial. The opposite of plastic was “real.” – Elizabeth Royte, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, 2005
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. – Mahatma Gandhi
To live in scarcity is to worry about the cost of food; to live in abundance is to worry about who else you can invite for dinner. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
