10 Facts About Simple living

Simple living refers to practices that promote simplicity in one's lifestyle.

Common practices of simple living include reducing the number of possessions one owns, depending less on technology and services, and spending less money.

Simple living can be a reaction to materialism and conspicuous consumption.

Simple living is said to have encouraged his disciples "to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics.

Simple living therefore concluded that what is necessary for happiness, bodily comfort, and life itself should be maintained at minimal cost, while all things beyond what is necessary for these should either be tempered by moderation or completely avoided.

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Simple living lived a wilderness lifestyle, advocating through his creative work a simple life and reverence for nature.

Forest gardening, developed by simple living adherent Robert Hart, is a low-maintenance plant-based food production system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables.

Simple living placed a video installation in the produce section of a grocery store that documented the length of time it took to grow certain vegetables.

Many advocates of simple living tend to agree that cutting out, or cutting down on, television viewing is a key ingredient in simple living.

Simple living diets are usually considered as "healthy", since they include a significant amount of fruit and vegetables.