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From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.