Earth in Mind Quotes

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.”
― David W. Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect

“the worth of education must now be measured against the standards of decency and human survival-the issues now looming so large before us in the twenty-first century. It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will save us.”
― David W. Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect

“knowledge increased, but like the circumference of an expanding circle, ignorance grew as well.”
― David W. Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect