"We are dependent not so much on Earth,……" — Donella Meadows
"We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life."
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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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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be…
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round…
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Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home,…
— Rod Blagojevich
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Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.
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Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any…
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Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s.…
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We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third…
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to…
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Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character…
— Giacomo Casanova
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to…
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