Donella Meadows

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening…

— Donella Meadows

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

— Donella Meadows

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

— Donella Meadows

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to…

— Donella Meadows

Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected…

— Donella Meadows

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates…

— Donella Meadows

Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples…

— Donella Meadows

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

— Donella Meadows

A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do.

— Donella Meadows

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.

— Donella Meadows

Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there's Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His…

— Donella Meadows

Smart development builds on a region's own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and…

— Donella Meadows

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

— Donella Meadows

I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world…

— Donella Meadows

We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

— Donella Meadows

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution…

— Donella Meadows

At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back…

— Donella Meadows

Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the…

— Donella Meadows

We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes,…

— Donella Meadows

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate…

— Donella Meadows

It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to…

— Donella Meadows

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case…

— Donella Meadows

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill…

— Donella Meadows

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

— Donella Meadows

We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living…

— Donella Meadows