Nothing ever goes away.

—Barry Commoner

About Barry Commoner

Portrait of Barry Commoner

Barry Commoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He was the director of the Center for Biology of Natural Systems and its Critical Genetics Project. He...

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Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you're finished.

—Leslie Nielsen

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace.

—Milan Kundera

There is a well-worn adage that those who set out upon a great enterprise would do well to count the cost. I am not sure that this is always true. I think that some of the very greatest enterprises in this world have been carried out successfully simply because the people who undertook them did not count the cost; and I am much of the opinion that… the most instructive consideration for us is the cost of doing nothing.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

—Peter Drucker

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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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