If, However, Economic Ambitions Are Good Servants,

Our Ordinary Mind Always Tries To Persuade Us That We Are Nothing But Acorns And That Our Greatest Happiness Will Be To Become Bigger, Fatter, Shinier Acorns; But That Is Of Interest Only To Pigs. Our Faith Gives Us Knowledge Of Something Better: That We Can Become Oak Trees.

It Is Doubly Chimerical To Build Peace On Economic Foundations Which, In Turn, Rest On The Systematic Cultivation Of Greed And Envy, The Very Forces Which Drive Men Into Conflict.

Much Of The Economic Decay Of Southeast Asia (as Of Many Other Parts Of The World) Is Undoubtedly Due To A Heedless And Shameful Neglect Of Trees.

Real Life Consists Of The Tensions Produced By The Incompatibility Of Opposites, Each Of Which Is Needed

Without ... The Creative Imagination Rushing In Where Bureaucratic Angels Fear To Tread - Without This, Life Is A Mockery And A Disgrace.