Roszak, Theodore
Theodore Roszak is also the author of The Dissenting Academy; The Making of a Counterculture; The Aquarian Frontier and the Evolution of a Consciousness, and Pontifex.

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The strenuous and foolish things that people in our time seek to do with history - to multiply thermonuclear overkill endlessly, to raise up economics of limitless growth, to build conglomerate empires that straddle the globe, to turn the planet into one vast industrial artifact, to produce without limit, to consume beyond all sane need . . . all this is what people use to fill the emptiness inside them. Unfinished Animal.

(When) things move slower; they stabilize at a simpler level. But none of this is experienced as a loss or a sacrifice. Instead, it is seen as a liberation from waste and busywork, from excessive appetite and anxious competition that allows one to get on with the essential business of life, which is to work out one's salvation with diligence. Person/Planet, 1978.

Like all the healing arts, ecology is through and through judgmental in character . . . (It) is the closest our science has come to an integrative wisdom. It, and not physics, deserves to become the basic science of the future. Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society, 1972.