“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”
― A Sand County Almanac
― A Sand County Almanac
“When Americans fill a prescription, the price is routinely twice as much—sometimes ten times as much—as a Briton or a German would pay for precisely the same pills made in the same factory.”
― The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
― The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
“Von Köckritz’s entire higher education was free. She considers that perfectly normal—and in Europe, it is.”
― The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
― The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
“One reason (though not the main one) is that American health care “providers”—doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug companies—make more money for what they do than their counterparts overseas do.”
― The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
― The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
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