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| No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
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| The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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| Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
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| Every designer's dirty little secret is that they copy other designers' work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration.
— Aaron Russell
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| Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
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| I hate books about poverty that make you feel guilty, as well as dry, academic ones that put you to sleep. Working to alleviate poverty is a lively, exciting field capable of generating new hope and inspiration, not feelings of gloom and doom. Learning the truth about poverty generates disruptive innovations capable of enriching the lives of rich people even more than those of poor people.
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| People, their buildings and the ways they organise themselves are central to permaculture. Thus the permaculture vision of permanent (sustainable) agriculture has evolved into one of permanent (sustainable) culture.
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| I love to see projects that make the world a better place manifest. The way a project manifests from inception, brainstorming, researching, creating, testing, iterating, promoting, etc. always fill me with wonder and excitement. There is no one way that it unfolds, but my favorite ways to be part of are those that are collaborative.
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| All exceptional abilities initially arise as defenses.
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| All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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| He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
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| Thinking is good, but doing is better.
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| Observe Nature thoroughly rather than labor thoughtlessly.
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| You don't have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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| Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments. The word itself is a contraction not only of permanent and agriculture but also of permanent culture, as cultures cannot survive for long without a sustainable agricultural base and landuse ethic.
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| We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.
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| We must not build housing, we must build communities.
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| 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people. That’s nearly 3 times the U.S. population.
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| The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that ‘W-A-T-E-R’ meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
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| Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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| In order to stay competitive, tomorrow's engineer will need to become more culturally savvy, as well as adept at implementing appropriate technologies. Capacity building is not about constructing a showcase engineering project. It's about coming up with practical, sustainable solutions that fit the environment, its people and the culture as well. (ASME)
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| It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
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| As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service.
— Wangari Maathai W, environmental activist, first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 |
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| Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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| You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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| Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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| Fundamentally, sustainable development is a notion of discipline. It means humanity must ensure that meeting present needs does not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
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| The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.
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| A global tipping point will be reached in 10 years [ 2016 ] if levels of greenhouse gases like methane and CO2 are not reduced. Global warming at this point becomes unstoppable.
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| Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
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| Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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| This we know, the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
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| The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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| There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
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| You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.
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| Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.
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| The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
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| I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.
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| Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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| The only source of knowledge is experience.
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| Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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| For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.
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| Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
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| No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
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| The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give to the rivers the kindness you would give any brother.
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| There are two kinds of solar-heat systems: 'passive' systems collect the sunlight that hits your home, and 'active' systems collect the sunlight that hits your neighbors' homes, too.
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| I’d put my money on the Sun and Solar Energy, what a source of Power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out, before we tackle that.
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| We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
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| We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
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| When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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| The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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| My friend, all theory is gray, and the Golden tree of life is green.
— Johann Wolfgang von GoetheW |
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| Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
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| A breeze came wandering from the sky, light as the whispers of a dream; He put the overhanging grasses by, and softly stooped to kiss the stream, The pretty stream, the flattered stream, The shy, yet unreluctant stream of wind.
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| There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationist themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.
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| Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive systems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of the landscape with people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way.
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