Quotes About Minimalism

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.

He doesn't need any money , all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.

I wanted to get me a full pack complete with everything necessary to sleep, shelter, eat, cook, in fact a regular kitchen and bedroom right on my back, and go off somewhere and find perfect solitude and look into the perfect emptiness of my mind and be completely neutral from any and all ideas. I intended to pray, too, as my only activity, pray for all living creatures; I saw it was the only decent activity left in the world.

I decided someday to become a Thoreau of the Mountains. To live like Jesus and Thoreau, except for women.

I don't know how old my phone is, but it was only $10. It is a nice subconscious way of not having the Internet at your fingertips... e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Comfort and simplicity are two keys that I follow when it comes to fashion.

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

I'm always looking to the lightweight superproduct that you apply and almost don't see. That's the ultimate, at least for me.

Ultimately it's the simple things that make a difference.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

If you own a rug you own too much.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

It won't kill you to wear that same pair of socks one more day.

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

Leonardo da Vinci pointed out that "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Let's throw away our throwaway culture

Still, the truth is that there was nothing extra. If my childhood were a sandwich, there would be no meat hanging off the bread. We had what we needed and nothing more. "And nothing less,

He is no towering oak tree with luxuriant branches growing in a land on which Nature has bestowed water and fertility; rather he is like the sayal bushes in the deserts of the Sudan, thick of bark and sharp of thorn, defeating death because they ask so little of life.

It's amazing how two simple objects can make your day.