"When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability."

-- Janine Benyus

#Cities Quotes #Forests Quotes #Sustainability Quotes

“I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. American Family was the first thing I did in English.”
“I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may clearly see the distinction - for there is a distinction - between the federal powers vested in Congress and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States, which is the Palladium [the protection] of the private and personal rights of the citizens.”
“Invest in helping people know what matters to them and who matters to them (and why), and encourage them to continually experiment with how they get things done in ways the serve their interests and yours as an employer.”
“I don't want to have children...I want to date them!”
“What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that.”

Source : Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com
“The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.”

Source : Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.48, Macmillan
“The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.”
“All cities have one key resource: the special abilities of the people who live in them. You just have to find out what they are. In the Australian city of Adelaide, for example, which is overshadowed by Sydney and Melbourne, I discovered a number of experts in the penal system. I advised them to work with these special skills.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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