If you want to be free, learn to live simply…Use what you have and be content where you are. Quit trying to solve your problems by moving to another place, by changing mates or careers…Eat food grown locally. Wear simple, durable clothing. Keep a small home, uncluttered and easy to clean…Of course, the world is full of novelty and adventures. New opportunities come along every day…So what?

…a society based on materialism and the. conquest of nature works to overcome these cycles. If some is good, more must be better, and an absolute glut seems best. At the same time, those who have little get even less.

The wise leader follows the natural order of events and does not take the consumer society for a model…

Understanding the connection between biodiversity and human health
The Covid-19 pandemic has heightened people’s awareness of our connection to nature. Humanity’s heavy footprint has destroyed and fragmented important ecosystems and landscapes, reducing the biodiversity those landscapes support and altering the delicate natural buffer that separates wildlife, pathogens and people. When habitat and biodiversity disappear and the buffer between humans and the natural world weakens, pathogens “spill over” to human populations, causing pandemics, such as Covid-19.