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Nature and Society Quotations featured in the August/September 2004 edition ••••••• I was speaking [at Harvard] on ethical capitalism and I said, "I think a lot of corporations are full of sin" - by which I meant that they prevent people from being who they really are and doing what they belive in. People find themselves doing meaningless tasks, even things they think are wrong. Charles Handy, AFR Boss magazine, May 2004 ••••••• The whole [philosophy] course [at Oxford] was about questions and asking questions about why the world was they way it was, why people behave the way they did", he says. "I discovered there's a trick: if you say 'why' three times, then you really get down to the guts of something - why, why, why? Gradually you get there, and when you start saying that to yourself a lot, the way the world works, whether the capitalist system works, it really looks a bit crazy, and then you discover that the answer to why? turns out to be historical ... I want people to think about what they are doing a bit more. Charles Handy, management writer, speaking about his education ••••••• There are no words in English for elements of a climate with the variability of Australia, for an El Nino climate, or for a fire-dependent eco-system; no lexicon which places them with a range of normality. there are [only] words of aberration. Jay Arthur, Default Country, p 151 (see our review of this book) ••••••• As I write, the Mouth of the Murray River is about to be closed, choked by the lack of environmental flows. the Murray today is a product of those whose language imagined a different river - and whi lived by that fantasy . Jay Arthur, Default Country, p 179 (see our review of this book) ••••••• Nature and drought are put in opposition. Through language, the colonist problematises a normal aspect of the Australian climate Jay Arthur, Default Country, p 144 (see our review of this book) ••••••• Back to top
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