Fons Burger > Quotes

“We can’t fix one thing without addressing the rest. A holistic vision of the far future - that is the only possible solution.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“And we can’t prepare children for a better world unless we build that world with them.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“With honest ingredients, a deeper appreciation of flavor, and less distance between farm and plate, we can relearn what food truly means, for ourselves and for the Earth.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“This is biodiversity: a delicate web of life that we are slowly and systematically dismantling.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“Water is a source of life but also a source of conflict, greed, and war.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“A home’s value should come from its ability to provide shelter and community, not from its financial returns.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“Instead, the world should run on sufficiency; enough food, enough energy, enough connection, shared fairly, within the boundaries of ecosystems.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“The schools of the future will not only teach how to think but how to be, in a world where information is infinite but wisdom is rare.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“Creativity became a part of daily life; not a job, not a contest, just something we all did, like breathing.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“Belonging means being part of a place and part of a community, to feel at home with the earth and with one another.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“The softest chapter may hold the hardest truth: that without love - visible in systems, in culture, in daily life - nothing holds.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“If all that is wiped out in one go after a major cyber-attack, the whole world comes to a standstill.”
― Fons Burger, 2125 - The Hibernator: What if you wake up in 100 years?

“Eve laughs. Its a laugh somewhere between laughing out loud and laughing with pity. If we live in a vulvocracy now”
― Fons Burger, 2125 - The Hibernator: What if you wake up in 100 years?

“If we are to find the only possible solution, it won’t come from fixing one thing at a time, it will come from seeing the whole - and realizing that we are part of it, not above it, not beside it, but within it, woven through it.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“History is no longer a university subject, and history lessons are no longer taught at school either. What the hell?”
― Fons Burger, 2125 - The Hibernator: What if you wake up in 100 years?