"The eco-effective future of industry is a world……" — William McDonough
"The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree."
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William McDonough
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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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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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To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive…
— Saint Basil
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
— Josh Billings
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Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.
— Eileen Caddy
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
— Richard Sibbes
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I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the…
— Jeffrey Skoll
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What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort,…
— Rudy Giuliani
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It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your…
— Cesar Chavez
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
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Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
— Henry David Thoreau
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