The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.

- William McDonough
More Quotes By William McDonough
- And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen,...
- To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the...
- Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force...
- Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
- Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans....
- Waste equals food, whether it’s food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products...
- The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time...
- If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000...
- In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It’s how...
- We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about...
- Here’s where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring...
- Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power...
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