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Quote by Margaret Mead

“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”

Quote by Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist known for her groundbreaking fieldwork and theoretical contributions. She is renowned for her studies of the Samoan, Arapesh, and Australian Aboriginal peoples, which had a profound impact on the fields of anthropology and sociology. more

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“Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.”

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“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.”