David W. Orr Quotes

• ¿Qué pueden hacer los educadores para fomentar la inteligencia real?... Podemos intentar enseñar las cosas que uno podría imaginar que la tierra nos enseñaría: silencio, humildad, santidad, conectividad, cortesía, belleza, celebración, donación, restauración, obligación y naturaleza salvaje.

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  Beauty, Teacher, Real

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• 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.

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  Media, Éxito, Gente

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

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  Destiny, Community, Citizens

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• 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.

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  Children, School, Adults

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• The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost...a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.

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  Ideas, Perception, Mind

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• 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.

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  College, Leaders Of Tomorrow, Environmental

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• El automovilismo desenfrenado, el hedonismo, el individualismo y el consumo ostentoso no pueden sostenerse porque toman más de lo que devuelven. Un mundo empobrecido espiritualmente no puede sostenerse porque el sinsentido, la anomia y la desesperación corroen el deseo de ser sostenido y la creencia de que la humanidad merece ser sostenida. En otras palabras, la sostenibilidad genuina no vendrá de cambios superficiales, sino de un proceso más profundo, similar al crecimiento de la humanidad hasta alcanzar una estatura más plena.

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  Growing Up, Giving, Humanity

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• Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.

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  Real, Issues, Water

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• The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.

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  Environmental, Assumption, Sustainability

  David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.58, Island Press

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• A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

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  Home, Creativity, Compassion

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• In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.

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  Perspective, Growth, Environmental

  David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.44, Island Press

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• It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.

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  Real, Technology, Issues

  David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.53, Island Press

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• "Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged."

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  Nature, World, Artificial

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• For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public knows of these things only in fragments, but not as a coherent and practical agenda indeed the only practical course available. That is our fault and we should start now to put a positive agenda before the public that includes the human and economic advantages of better technology, integrated planning, coherent purposes, and foresight.

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  Technology, Ideas, Environmental

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• ... 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.

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  Moving, Air, Law

  David W. Orr (2011). “Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr”, p.113, Island Press

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• Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in itself a considerable achievement. This is one of the most compelling and inspiring works I've read in a long time.

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  Powerful, Journey, Long

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