Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

Popular Topics
Quiet, Dress, Mother'S Day, Jesus, Beach, Loves, Amazing Music, Journey, Motor, Religion, Memorable, Wonderful, Town, Kindly, Inspiration, Impossible, Gold, Body, Brain, Flower, Philosophy, Weak, Peace Love, Songs, Path Of Love, House, Wisdom, Today, Happy, Thank You, Excellent, Living My Life, Relationships, Light, I Miss You, Thought, Identity, Girl, Stories, Think, Stage, Like, Good, Humble, Things In Life, Private Life, Inspired, Surprised, Evidence, Organization
David W. Orr

. . . laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.

Example, Games, Moving, Plants, Pollution Control, Power
Same Author Quotes

What can educators do to foster real intelligence?. . . We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.

Beauty, Giving, Intelligence, Obligation, Real, Teacher

There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.

Mean, Myth, People, Plain, Successful, Tellers

No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public.

College, Environmental, Leaders Of Tomorrow, Matters, Transition, World

Our true destiny. . . is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.

Bottom, Citizens, Community, Destiny, Engaged, Living

It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path.

Adults, Children, Current, Path, School, Western
Similar Quotes