Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. – Sir Winston Churchill

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, “Seeing,” Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. – Edwin Way Teale

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. – Christian Nevell Bovee