Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Andy Couturier

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Andy Couturier.
Last updated on October 7, 2024.
Andy Couturier

Andy Couturier is an American author and winner of the 2017 Nautilus Book Award, Gold, in Green Living/Sustainability. His books include Writing Open the Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free the Writing and the Writer, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance, and The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan. The Abundance of Less is a revised and updated edition of his previous work. His essays and articles on ecology, sustainable living, and the problems inherent with nuclear power have appeared in The Japan Times, North American Review, Adbusters, Kyoto Journal, the Oakland Tribune, and Creative Nonfiction.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.
Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.
I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them. — © Andy Couturier
I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.
I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.
Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?
What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.
Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.
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