97 Quotes by Donella Meadows

If the world were a village of 100 people, ... there would be 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, eight people from Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean, five from the U.S.A. and Canada, and one from Australia or New Zealand.

Clinton is a special defendant. He knew he was being videotaped, he could guess what would happen to that tape, he conducted himself accordingly.

The first one was much nicer. It was spontaneous and unorganized. It went beyond what anyone in charge wanted.

The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.

The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right.

We can’t control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature’s diversity is gone?

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information.