"Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which……" — Donella Meadows
"Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it."
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49 Quotes by Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows has 49 quotes on this site.
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What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly…
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The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to…
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A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
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No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any…
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There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on…
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How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a…
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I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a…
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The European nations take climate change very seriously.
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The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there…
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You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
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A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor
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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park
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More Absorb Quotes
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
— Dave Barry
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of…
— Theodor Adorno
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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad…
— Jo Brand
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I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff…
— Luke Bryan
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so…
— Pearl S. Buck
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
— Pearl S. Buck
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
— Michael Chabon
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be…
— Eric Clapton
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