David Orr Quotes

#1. I saw that on Small Business Saturday, the president went shopping at a bookstore and bought 17 books, including "The Laughing Monsters," "Being Mortal," and "Heart of Darkness." Or as the cashier put it, "You OK, man? Maybe a little 'Chicken Soup for the Presidential Soul?'

Jimmy Fallon

#2. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth,
Goodness, and Beauty.

Albert Einstein

#3. 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.

David W. Orr

#4. What can educators do to foster real intelligence?..We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.

David W. Orr

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

David W. Orr

#6. The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.

Stephane Mallarme

#7. 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.

David W. Orr

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

David W. Orr

#9. It's not necessarily helpful to talk about poetry as if it were a device to be assembled or a religious experience to be undergone. Rather, it would be useful to talk about poetry as if it were, for example, Belgium

David Orr

#10. Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

David Orr

#11. 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.

David W. Orr

#12. Is there no spiritual leader during this decline - no one to chastise the sinners and bring hope to the disheartened? Although

Anonymous

#13. 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.

David W. Orr

#14. Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Aldous Huxley

#15. To believe in moments makes life endless, no?

Meia Geddes

#16. It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants

David Orr

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

David W. Orr

#18. 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.

David W. Orr

#19. 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.

David W. Orr

#20. QUOTE:
"Creating art and literature requires a creative imagination as well as the ability to get things done in a disciplined manner. Live in the moment, and plan for tomorrow.

Adam Donaldson Powell