Still relevant almost 60 years later

I'm reading A Sand County Almanac this week. It's my dad's copy, which has a short poem penciled in the front to my dad from an old girlfriend of his. But what I really wanted to share is this paragraph written by Aldo Leopold in 1948 in the introduction.

Our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. The whole world is so greedy for more bathtubs that it has lost the stability necessary to build them, or even to turn off the tap. Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.

And from the Center for a New American Dream, a page of ideas on living better, with less stuff.

http://www.newdream.org/live/