"I can't imagine something being beautiful at this……" — William McDonough
"I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick. How can anything be beautiful if it's not ecologically intelligent at this point?"
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30 Quotes by William McDonough
William McDonough has 30 quotes on this site.
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Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so…
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In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we…
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We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials…
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You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of…
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Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place
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If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to…
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The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials…
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We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store…
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How do we love all the children of all species for all time?
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Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how…
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Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,'
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We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the…
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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