"We celebrate the cherry tree not for its……" — William McDonough
"We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem"
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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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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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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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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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