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We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.
Author: Donella Meadows - American EnvironmentalistLove , Community , Beauty , Challenge
There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.
Author: Donella Meadows - American EnvironmentalistLife , People , Ocean , Fish
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.
Author: Donella Meadows - American EnvironmentalistNature , Alone , Room , Zoo
World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.
Author: Donella Meadows - American EnvironmentalistFamily , World , Born , Stand Up
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
Author: Donella Meadows - American EnvironmentalistYou , Process , Someone , Try
It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone.
Author: Donella Meadows - American EnvironmentalistBeing , Diversity , Gone , Extinction
You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
Author: Donella Meadows - American EnvironmentalistYou , Tree , Destruction , Should
Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.
Author: Donella Meadows - American EnvironmentalistOnly , Responsibility , Future , Present
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.
Author: Donella Meadows - American EnvironmentalistThree , Perfection , Island , Fantasy
George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.
Author: Donella Meadows - American EnvironmentalistYou , Change , Climate , Climate Change
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