Smaller is better.

Less is more.

Quality before quantity.

Plain and simple - which doesn't mean easy.

History provides the solutions for tomorrow.

Honor elders.
Respect animals.
Do it yourself.
Produce more than you consume.
Be original, creative, independent and always make good use of what is at hand.
You can always make more money but you cannot make more time.
If you are not on the edge, you are taking up too much room.
Think seven generations hence.

Self-reliance.

Self-sufficiency.

Self-sustaining.

"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it has to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" - Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

"Live in each season as it passes, breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influences of each" Henry David Thoreau, "Huckleberries."