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The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment is good, so be it. But if it is poor, so is the quality of life within it.

Ellen Swallow Richards

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Ellen Swallow Richards
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: December 3
Died: 1911
Died: March 30
Chemist
Ecologist
Economist
Environmentalist
Professor
University Teacher
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta Richards
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If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.
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I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.
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The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.
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...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.
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I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.
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If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
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The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.
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I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
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Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.
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For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.
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I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.
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The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.
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I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.
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A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.
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I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.
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Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
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The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach it's members how to live in harmony with their environment-def ined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources.
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Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.
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