Welcome to Day 6 of How to Get Organized and Save the Planet in 30 Days. For today, just a few words of inspiration for you.
First, from Donella Meadows, a pioneer in the movement for an environmentally sustainable society, 1941 – 2000
“People don’t need enormous cars, they need respect. They don’t need closets full of clothes, they need to feel attractive and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don’t need electronic equipment; they need something worthwhile to do with their lives. People need identity, community, challenge, acknowledgement, love, and joy. To try to fill these needs with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to real and never-satisfied problems. The resulting psychological emptiness is one of the major forces behind the desire for material growth.”
Karl Marx said it a little differently, back in his Economic And Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
“The devaluation of the human world increases in direct relation to the increase in value of the world of things.”
Thank you for reading this blog. Have a beautiful weekend with your friends and family, and maybe give someone you love a kiss. You are on this planet for a very particular reason and you are amazing and unique. Challenge yourself. And for the joy part, here’s one final quote from my favorite comedian, Steven Wright
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?”
