Mathis Wackernagel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.
-- Mathis Wackernagel

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Pain is not an evolutionary error.
-- Mathis Wackernagel

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The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'
-- Mathis Wackernagel

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Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources
-- Mathis Wackernagel

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I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slaveâ€”one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.
I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.
The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.

Mathis Wackernagel famous quotes

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