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We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Accumulate Beauty Bigger Car Challenge Clothes Community Greater Identity Living Love Material Need Purpose Self-Respect Than Variety

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I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Amazing Animals Believe Blood Courage Defend Dominate Each Highest Humans Know Lives Mayhem Morality Must Other Our Our Lives Powers Purposes Rationality Refuse Run Savage Society Strength Too Use War

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It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: About Being Count Destroying Diversity Essentially Every Extinction Fair Gone Greatly Guess Habitat Hour Population Pushing Rate Reduced Species Whose Within

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The climate continues to deteriorate.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Climate Deteriorate

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You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Cutting Destruction Issue Should Tree You

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Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Although Among Available Birth Brought Care Chinese Coercion Down Education Family Family Planning Fertility Health Health Care Key Lower Mostly Partly People Per Planning Poorest Rate Rates Seem Services Social Wealth World

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No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Action Between Drifting Expectations Get Goals Government Higher Insist Intention Low Nation One Way Only Only One Way Outrage Performance Resolve Results Standards Stop Tension Up Wake Wake Up Way

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Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: About Accept Anyone Both Calls Cruel Cutting Ending Freedom Freedom From Honesty Human Humility Ideology Left Listening Nonsense Potential Poverty Refusal Requires Right Wisdom

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World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Access Anywhere Babies Born Cheap Choose Could Empowerment Enough Family Family Planning Fertility Had Had Enough Half Husbands Indicate Mothers One Half Own Personal Planning Relatives Reliable Size Stand Stand Up Surveys Third Third World Up World Would

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Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Alone Banks Biodiversity Expense Few Function Gene However Human Itself Left Maintain Maintained More National Nature Needs Park Parks Preserving Properly Protecting Room Species Than Without Zoo

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: March 14th, 1941

Died: February 20th, 2001

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