You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
MARGARET MEADEarth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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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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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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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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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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