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We face the question whether a still higher “standard of living” is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949

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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. – Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950

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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. – Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879

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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. – Benjamin Franklin

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When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. – Confucius

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