“The store customer, who comes home with a package under his arm has learned nothing, except that a ten dollar bill is a source of power in the market place. The man or woman who has converted material into needed products via tools and skills has matured in the process.” Self Sufficiency Book:The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living Source: The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
“The business of procuring the necessities of life has been shifted from the wood lot, the garden, the kitchen and the family to the factory and the large-scale enterprise. In our case, we moved our center back to the land.” LandSelf Sufficiency Book:The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living Source: The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living