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We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that 'we choose death'.

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In modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past.

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Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Barbara Ward

Barbara Ward

Born: May 23, 1914
Died: May 31, 1981 (aged 67)
Bio: Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries.
Known for:
  1. Only one Earth (1972)
  2. The home of man (1976)
  3. The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations (1961)
  4. Progress for a small planet (1979)
  5. Five Ideas That Change the World (1959)

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