Quotes by Helena Norberg-Hodge - Page 1

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Action
Becoming
Instability
Radical
Urgent
Rapid
Signs
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Even in America, people have said again and again that they would be willing to sacrifice for a cleaner environment.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Environment
Sacrifice
Willing
Cleaner
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I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Time And Money
Classes
Change Time Money
Contribute
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What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Consequence
Conviction
Entwined
Holistic
Man-Made
Mainly
Motivates
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Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Cream
Selling
Consumer
Equated
Images
Smiling
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Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Desire
Development
Looks
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I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Community
Land
Way
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At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Respect
Admiration
Consumerism
Instinct
Manipulation
Psychological
Young
Love People Will
Love Respect People
Looking
Belong
Through
Deep
Human
Level
Young People
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Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Diversity
Healing
Keys
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There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Discussion
Argued
Huge Difference
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One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Co2
Cohesion
Contact
Emissions
Reducing
Towns
Closer
Communities
Demographic
Existing
Maintain
Pattern
Small Towns
Strengthen
Villages
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It may seem absurd to believe that a 'primitive' culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth, an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Believe
Culture
Earth
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Globalization, which attempts to amalgamate every local, regional, and national economy into a single world system, requires homogenizing locally adapted forms of agriculture, replacing them with an industrial system-centrally managed, pesticide-intensive, one-crop production for export-designed to deliver a narrow range of transportable foods to the world market.
Helena Norberg-Hodge / Director
Agriculture
Pesticides
World
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