We live in a society that is afraid of and actively punishes slowness. The features of a life lived slowly and close to land and to community, might seem to many to be backwards and archaic, but it is high time that we begin to doubt and question the assumption that it is unsustainable and inherently poverty-stricken as well.
Source: Poverty and the Metaphor of the Turtle | Tobias Roberts
Fascinating metaphor for poverty.