3 Quotes & Sayings By Donald Worster

Donald Worster is the author of numerous books on the environmental history of the Western United States. He is co-founder and chair of the board of the Environmental History Society. He is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and he serves as vice president for research and publications for the Society.

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We trust ourselves, far more than our ancestors did… The root of our predicament lies in the simple fact that, though we remain a flawed and unstable species, plagued now as in the past by a thousand weaknesses, we have insisted on both unlimited freedom and unlimited power. It would now seem clear that, if we want to stop the devastation of the earth, the growing threats to our food, water, air, and fellow creatures, we must find some way to limit both. Donald Worster
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The marketplace is an institution that teaches self-advancement, private acquisition, and the domination of nature. Its way of thinking is incompatible with the round river. Ecological harmony is a nonmarket value that takes a collective will to achieve. Donald Worster