“Yes, that’s what I meant to say. If this seems a bit circular to you, well, it is, but it has deep meaning.”
“In the end, the term 'circularity' may just be one way to make us aware that we need a more encompassing, integrated and restorative sustainability path that includes people as much as technology and nature.”
Source: A Sustainist Lexicon
“Cradle to Cradle is like good gardening; it is not about “saving” the planet but about learning to thrive on it.”
Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
“In depth, remember the surface, and remember to surface. Not in the sense that we need to catch our breath, but, for the trees, the wind, the Moon, and the Sun may miss us [if] we are gone for too long.
Consideration.”
“When you become one with God, when you exist in harmony with the whole, your life becomes a joy. The moment one becomes harmonious with God, one has found the divine within oneself. Jesus says: "I and my father in heaven is one."
He is crucified because of this great statement, because the small minds cannot tolerate it. Truth have suffered much, because people are so mediocre. They cannot rise a little higher to see the truth. Before one can understand the truth, one need to go through a radical change. One needs eyes to see and ears to hear. One needs a new vision.
Without God we are small and tiny, and we are struggling against a vast universe. The spiritual journey means to decide: from now on I will get more and more in tune with the whole. I will not try to remain separate from the whole. I will not try to be an isolated island. I will become one with the ocean.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“...no theory of hermeneutic legitimation can be indeed legitimate if not by the process of hermeneutic reading… At the origin of the hermeneutic practice, there is a circle; it does not matter how holy or how vicious.”
Source: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
“When you talk about “saving the planet” you turn it into an ethical question, and I think you won’t solve problems if they are ethical.”
Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
“what most people see in their garbage cans is just the tip of the material iceberg; the product itself contains on average only 5% of the raw materials involved in the process of making and delivering it.”
Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
“The design intention behind the current industrial infrastructure is to make an attractive product that is affordable, meets regulations, performs well enough, and lasts long enough to meet market expectations”
Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
“as a buyer you got the item or service you wanted, plus additives that you didn’t ask for and that may be harmful to you and your loved ones.”
Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things