David W. Orr

Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in…

— David W. Orr

There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain…

— David W. Orr

What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would…

— David W. Orr

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

— David W. Orr

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world…

— David W. Orr

"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged."

— David W. Orr

For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public…

— David W. Orr

The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost...a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it…

— David W. Orr

... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants…

— David W. Orr

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers,…

— David W. Orr

It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the…

— David W. Orr

Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and…

— David W. Orr

No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They…

— David W. Orr

In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate…

— David W. Orr

Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their…

— David W. Orr

It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based,…

— David W. Orr

The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage…

— David W. Orr