Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s preface to Didier Ruef’s ‟Recycle”

The high price of materialistic values

An American psychologist Tim Kasser and his colleagues at the University of Rochester have shown, through studies spanning two decades and within a representative sample

Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s preface to Didier Ruef’s ‟Recycle”

As Didier Ruef wrote, ‟While the re-use and recovery of waste is part of everyday life in developing countries, our consumer society has turned waste into garbage, by taking away its

Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s preface to Didier Ruef’s ‟Recycle”

Recently, I had the opportunity to swim in the middle of around thirty whale-sharks off the Mexican coast. But amidst the sun’s rays that lit up the shimmering ocean and the

Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s preface to Didier Ruef’s « Recycle » de Didier Ruef)

From prehistoric tools to the flooding of waste…



Some animals have learned to use and even shape rudimentary tools. Homo habilis generalized tool making and Homo

In flight from Bhutan to Delhi, on October 14th, the Everest (8848m) in the middle and the Makalu (8463 m) on the right

The Annapurna range

Tibetan and Bhutanese monks from Shechen Monastery in Nepal enjoy the snow on a summit overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland during a European tour of sacred dances. /MR 474

Rainbow on the high Tibetan plateau, Kham area.

Hills in the Himalaya, Nepal


(MR 318-BW)

‟Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

— Mark Twain, Following the Equator

The Tsangpo River seen from the hill of Hepori, near Samye Monastery in central Tibet. The river becomes the Brahmaputra in India, after gushing down the breathtaking gorges that surround the Namchak Barwa Mountain.


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