Archive for the ‘Favorite Dana Quotes’ Category
Three weeks of information I never had before…
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: May 4th, 2000
Dana, on driving her new Honda Insight car:
“Three weeks of information I never had before have changed 40 years of ingrained driving habits. I didn’t have to be coerced or rewarded; I didn’t have to change my values. I just had to see how my action did and did not conform to my values.”
–Excerpt from the Global Citizen, May 4, [...]
The Earth has no way of registering good intentions…
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: April 20th, 2000
“The Earth has no way of registering good intentions or future intentions or high hopes. It doesn’t even pay attention to dollars, which are, from a planet’s point of view, just a charming human invention. Planets measure only physical things – energy and materials and their flows into and out of the changing populations of living creatures.”
–Excerpt from the Global [...]
Freedom, stewardship, fidelity, family, community…
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: June 3rd, 1999
Biotech companies love to talk about feeding the world…
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: March 25th, 1999
“Biotech companies love to talk about feeding the world, but their products must pay off in the market, which measures dollar demand, not human need. The effort has gone into the potato that makes McDonald’s fries, not the yam eaten by folks with no cash. The corn that feeds America’s pigs and chickens, not the dryland millet that feeds Africa’s [...]
… on vision
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: February 12th, 1996
“If we haven’t specified where we want to go, it is hard to set our compass, to muster enthusiasm, or to measure progress. But vision is not only missing almost entirely from policy discussions; it is missing from our culture. We talk easily and endlessly about our frustrations, doubts, and complaints, but we speak only rarely, and sometimes with embarrassment, [...]
