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

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

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo. – Honore de Balzac