"There's no preparing for the winter and all that. They consume what they can consume right now." I think this is our true nature. Civilization tries to change this but it can't ever really win. Once we become localized enough, we will revert back to this way of living because it often aids in our survival to consume what we have when we have it, I think anyway.
"If I'm bored and unhappy, it means I have failed to use my imagination." I like that attitude.
So true. I somehow think that the hunter-gatherers had it better. They consume what they can only consume for today, no excess. There's no need to store and there will be no waste.