The VandenBroecks

Goldian VandenBroeck and her husband, Andre, collaborated to create "Less Is More." Goldian is the editor of the book which is the anthology of ancient and modern thinkers and philosophers who praise the value of the simple life, one that is unencumbered by wealth and all its trappings. In the forward of the book, economist E.F. Schumacher praises the efforts by VandenBroecks in collecting and editing the many quotations and excerpts that comprise this work. The anthology contains hundreds of relevant quotations that support the benefit of the simple life. Goldian VandenBroeck apparently took great care and painstaking effort in locating and categorizing quotations and writings from great voices from as far back as Seneca and Aristotle.

Andre VandenBroeck himself takes a role in presenting the concept of "Less Is More" in the first chapter in which he defines and describes the fundamentals of the somewhat...