"If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals……" — Donella Meadows
"If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us."
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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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