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Simple living is the way towards a greener and more personally satisfying future. It's your move next! Personal Tweets can be found @Bearhouseman

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

“The next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”

Wendell Berry (1934 – 2026)

#WendellBerry

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

"The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched."

Henry David Thoreau

Artwork from Harold Mathews Brett

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

"A person can get used to almost anything."

-Jill Winger

Artwork from Helen Allingham

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

In all normal podcast places (Radical Simple Living - Series 3 episode 6) or .....

https://t.co/OjhMThOSWr

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

"When we are at home in the garden, tending and nurturing all its plants, animals and minerals, living with them through all the seasons and days, then healing comes upon us like a gift and makes us whole."

~ Christopher Bamford

Artwork from George Clausen

#Gardening #SimpleLiving

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

"This way of life I have now adopted is often called “the simple life,” but that’s entirely misleading. It’s actually quite complex, made up of a thousand simple things. By contrast, my old life in the city was quite simple, but made up of a thousand complex things, like smartphones and plug sockets and plastic. The innumerable technologies of industrial civilization are so complex they make our own lives simple .......

What I think people mean by “the simple life” is the uncomplicated essence of it all, and, yes, there is a timeless simplicity to it. I’ve found that when you peel off the plastic that industrial civilization vacuum-packs around you, what remains couldn’t be simpler. Healthy food. Something to be enthusiastic about. Fresh air. A sense of belonging and aliveness. Good water. Purpose. Intimacy. A vital and deep connection to life. The kind of things I did without for too many years."

~ Mark Boyle

Artwork from Linda Nelson Stocks

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

#SimpleLiving

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

#Gardening #Homesteading

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“Children allowed a wonder-filled life will cultivate inner strength, a confidence in their own ability to think, evaluate, and know.” @Sally_Clarkson
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[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

Do you know a college student who might be interested in writing, publishing, regenerative farming, and Christian community?

This June, Plough is offering its 4th annual #internship, combining book and magazine editing and hands-on agriculture.

Find out more below and help us spread the word!
https://t.co/AL4hGKn5z5

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#SimpleLiving #Quote

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

"The complexity of our lives is directly related to our material desires. Most of our real needs are of the spirit, such as meaning, purpose, and friendship. By simplifying our material desires our lives will become less burdensome..."
~ Arthur Gish
#SimpleLiving

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

The latest Radical Simple Living Podcast is out. It's all about two groups, the Quakers, and the Shakers. You can listen in any regular podcast place, or right here-

https://t.co/dtKwklXlX8

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

https://t.co/ZER5Pp30vt

New Radical Simple Living Podcast is out S3E4 - all about #Distributism and why it relates to #Hobbit holes. S3E4 wherever you normally listen to podcasts.

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
~ G. K.Chesterton

#Chesterton #SimpleLiving #Distributism #Quote

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

A new edition of the Radical Simple Living Podcast has just been published in all the regular places of podcast, or you can follow this link;
https://t.co/CtqvI2gdee

It's all about how we can take ideas that developed in the A and C Movement and apply them to simple living.

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[Ray Lovegrove @bearhouseman]

A new episode of the Radical Simple Living Podcast is up and running. S3E2 "Cherry Picking, or Gold Mining?" You can listen in your regular podcast places, or follow this link https://t.co/06zzb5lQsh #ArtsAndCrafts #Morris #Chesterton