Quote by Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potenti

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. – Margaret Mead

Other quotes by Margaret Mead

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. – Margaret Mead

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Age
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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. – Margaret Mead

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Science
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

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Change
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job. – Greg Peterson, 1997, www.urbanfarm.org

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Nature

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Nature

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. – Helen Garner

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Nature

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. – Maria Mitchell

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Nature

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