Sustainability Quotes - Page 2

• The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Energy, Green, Renewable Energy

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• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

  Thomas Fuller

  Ocean, Sea, Oil And Water

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

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• The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

  Ron Finley

  Funny Things, Environmental

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• No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

  John Denver

  Future, Heart, Healthy

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• Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

  Brooks Stevens

  Environmental, Economy, Obsolescence

  Quoted in Vance Packard The Waste Makers (1960), ch.6. This is thought to be the first use of the phrase 'planned obsolescence'.

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• The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

  Ursula Goodenough

  Environmental, Understanding Love, End Of The World

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• Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be

  Niall FitzGerald

  Future, Agriculture, Vision

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• We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

  Wendell Berry

  Ecosystems, Community, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

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• Education beats at the heart of sustainability.

  Andrea Illy

  Heart, Beats

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• Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Effort, Waiting

  Max Lucado (2013). “You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times”, p.182, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Ecosystems, Survival, Earth

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• In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

  Rob Hopkins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ideas

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• Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer in recruiting employees as well as attracting customers.

  John Replogle

  Practice, Suffering, Cost

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• We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities after nature's ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Since the outstanding characteristic of the biosphere is its inherent ability to sustain life, a sustainable human community must be designed in such a manner that its technologies and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

  Fritjof Capra

  Life, Nature, Learning

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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• When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Daughter, Moving

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• Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.

  Daryl Hannah

  Garden, Vegetables, Trying

  "GREEN / Daryl Hannah Speaks Out" by Gregory Dicum, www.sfgate.com. May 3, 2006.

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• The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Patriotic, Trying, Care

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• Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.

  Maurice Strong

  Food, Home, Air

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• Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Time, Future, Kids

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• As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. From here will come the demand for sustainable communities, for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce. From here comes the future rushing in on us. How does one acquire the capacity for active citizenship? The opportunities exist every day...Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Rushing

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• The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."

  Vaclav Havel

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Focus

  "Vaclav Havel's Dissident Criticism" by Peter Lawler, bigthink.com.

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• After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

  Maurice Strong

  Running, Mean, Romance

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• If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.

  Sylvia Earle

  Nature, Communication, Understanding

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