Inspiring Quotes 16

*"Environmentalism can't succeed until it confronts the destructive nature of modern work - and supplants it." The Ecology of Work by Curtis White, Published in the May/June 2007 issue of Orion magazine / Rewarding work, Comment
* ". . .if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." Ivan Turgenev
* "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." Goethe
* "Each time an elder dies, a library is burned." (Cultural heritage) Twitter @Jessica Wells / Elders and sustainability
* "No-one asks our views... But we are the real experts of our own hopes and aspirations... We can contribute if you are prepared to give up a little power to allow us to participate as partners, in our own future, and the future of the country." Moraene Roberts
* "It self-organizes and evolves. It creates diversity, not uniformity. That's what makes the world interesting, that's what makes it beautiful, and that's what makes it work." Donella Meadows
* "There are striking variations in health across different areas of the UK and what is clear is that not only physical aspects of the area, like pollution, affect health, but also things like the level of trust, tolerance and the level of social cohesion." Sir Michael Marmot
*"Eat when hungry, sleep when tired" Zen proverb
*"We used to say other answers on a postcard … now there are rather more options." David Wilcox February 7, 2009 
*"Where I live in Marin County, it was citizen action that instigated the preservation of hundreds of thousands of acres as open space and parkland; it was not government taking the initiative. That mostly happened in the pre-Internet days. Now that we’ve got the Net and there’s more talent, creativity and freedom in the civic sector than in government, it’s time that citizens once again take the lead in building tools and solving problems for their localities." cfigallo, pResilience, April 7, 2009 / Community involvement
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