Sustainability Quotes

• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Teaching, Democracies Have

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Jun 03, 2016

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• Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.

  Arron Wood

  Forever, Earth, Environment

  Arron Wood, Richard Wood (2007). “Inspiring the Next Young Environmental Leader: Kids Teaching Kids - Addressing Our Environmental Crisis”, p.12, Environmental Leadership

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

  Wendell Berry

  Future, Environmental, Guarantees

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.51, Counterpoint

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• Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Future, Gun, Civilization

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• Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Income, Living On

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Each of us has a responsibility for the sustainability of our planet and each of us can make a difference if we choose to do so.

  Miranda Kerr

  Responsibility, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be

  Gary Lawrence

  Future, Agriculture, Choices

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• The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

  Patrick Dixon

  Keys, Understanding, One Word

  "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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• Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

  Shari Arison

  Keys, Survival, Levels

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• The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

  Paul Hawken

  Future, Vision, Trying

  "Experts: Big Hurricanes in Future", www.wired.com. October 2, 2005.

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• Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

  William McDonough

  Forever

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• Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

  Matthew Fox

  Justice, Unjust, Social Justice

  Matthew Fox (2006). “A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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  Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Courage, Time

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• People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  People, Environmental Pollution, Cost

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• The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Future, Character

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• Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!

  Vivienne Westwood

  Beautiful, People, Quality

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• Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

  Alan AtKisson

  Future, Vision, Trends

  Alan AtKisson (2012). “The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World”, p.110, Earthscan

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• Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

  Hunter Lovins

  Smart, Environment, Things To Do

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• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Cancer

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

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• We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sleep, Perspective, Environmental

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• The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'

  Mathis Wackernagel

  Two, Definitions, Planets

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