Donella Meadows Quotes

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• What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is…
• The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from…
• A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
• No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one…
• There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.
• How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction…
• I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains…
• The European nations take climate change very seriously.
• The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one…
• You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
• A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor
• Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park
• In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had…
• George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman
• Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the…
• We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!
• Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a…
• It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's…
• We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or…
• The climate continues to deteriorate.

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