Donald Brown quotes

“Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible...”
-- Donald Brown

Source : "Is climate science disinformation a crime against humanity?" by Donald Brown, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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“The scope of herbal medicine ranges from mild-acting plant medicines such as chamomile and peppermint, to very potent ones such as foxglove (from which the drug digitalis is derived). In between these two poles lies a wide spectrum of plant medicine with significant medical applications. One need only go to the United States Pharacopoeia to see the central role that plant medicine has played in American medicine.”
-- Donald Brown

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“Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.”

Source : Aaron T. Beck (1967). “Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects”, p.36, University of Pennsylvania Press

“Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.”

“Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]”

“The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.”

“Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.”

“Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.”

“I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.”

“Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.”

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”

“Eating is an environmental act.”