Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is an Indian activist and editor. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate, pacifist, and is the current editor of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies, and of The Small School. His most notable accomplishment is a peace walk with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries – Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, a...
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth9 August 1936
elderly happy means people relieved save savings
These are elderly people and the savings really means a lot to them. They are very happy and relieved that they can save money.
monks mother restless
I was a restless child. I did not go to school. My mother used to go to the monks of the Jain religion, and I would go with her.
gratitude future air
The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude
corporations making-money slave
We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.
kind
Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.
gratitude environment depends
We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
acting stopping social-transformation
The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.
compassion hands skills
You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.
earth way tourists
Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
strength beautiful differences
The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all the diversity and differences we see of nationalities, of religions, of cultures, of languages, are all beautiful diversities, for they are only on the surface. And deep down we share the same humanity, the global humanity.
earth pesticides should
Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food should be local, organic rather than grown with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides.
peace war hate
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe
prayer tree church
How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.
earth goes-on environment
If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.