"To eliminate the concept of waste means to……" — William McDonough
"To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist."
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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