The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
“All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.”
“To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.”