Quotes by David Orr

“When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.”

“become ground zero in this movement.”

“In our view, current financial market psychology is under-estimating the negative impact that rising joblessness will have on the housing and motor vehicle markets in the first half of 2002,”

“We have often noted the Fed tries to choose a policy action that minimizes the consequences of a mistake. Which would have the least negative consequences today: easing too much and setting off an excessively strong rebound or easing too little and allowing the economy to slip back into recession? We would vote for the former.”

“Were looking at an innovative non-standard way to float the company, that may involve giving existing shareholders priority in any offering. Were not ruling anything out.”

“Its like the kid doesnt want to take any medicine, but its good for him, ... Its a little medicine now versus a lot of bad medicine later.”

“[Increased interest rates might also mean a smaller pay raise as well as a more gradual increase in the value of your investments. But slower may be surer.] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, people were getting 10 percent pay raises, ... But housing prices were going up 12 to 15 percent, and so were cars.”

“I think the bond markets are getting a head fake here because [the Fed] explicitly said that they are going to be on guard,”

“I still think theres a better than 50-50 chance they will raise rates again.”

“The data reflect that main concern that Mr. Greenspan has voiced in his recent comments, i.e., that with labor markets this tight, there is a real risk that compensation costs will accelerate faster than the ability of productivity gains to offset those costs, thus boosting unit labor costs and thereby generating price increases,”

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means to draw out. What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity needs opportunities to grow and flourish, it needs to be validated, it needs to be instructed and disciplined, and it needs to be harnessed to the goal of building humane and sustainable societies. Education that builds on our affinity for life would lead to a kind of awakening of possibilities and potentials that lie dormant and unused in the industrial-utilitarian mind. Therefore the task of education, as Dave Forman stated, is to help us open our souls to love this glorious, luxuriant, animated, planet. The good news is that our own nature will help us in the process if we let it.