Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
MARGARET MEADYou can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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