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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

Margaret Mead

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
MARGARET MEAD

Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
MARGARET MEAD

Caution Negative Popular Science
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
MARGARET MEAD

Communication Himself Lonely Person
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
MARGARET MEAD

Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
MARGARET MEAD

Civilization Life People Realize Way
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
MARGARET MEAD

Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
MARGARET MEAD

Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
MARGARET MEAD

Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
MARGARET MEAD

Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
MARGARET MEAD

Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
MARGARET MEAD

Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
MARGARET MEAD

Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
Earth 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.
MARGARET MEAD

Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Fierce Woman
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
MARGARET MEAD

Change Experience Explode Justice Wound

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