Sustainable Development Quotes

• Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Exercise, Justice, Growth

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• Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

  Kofi Annan

  Future, Reality, Ideas

  "Annan pleads with west as environment is pushed up UN agenda". www.theguardian.com.

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Future, Needs, Generations

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• There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

  Paul McCartney

  Rain, Future, Land

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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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• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ocean, Future

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

  Phil Harding

  Future, Vision, Environmental

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• 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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• The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Future, Vision, Working Together

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• Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be

  Niall FitzGerald

  Future, Agriculture, Vision

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• What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Nature, Reflection

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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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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• Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment

  David Attenborough

  Survival, Population, Benefits

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• No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Future, Vision, Matter

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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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• 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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• The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Change, Future, Animal

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• Education is a human right with immense power to transform

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Democracies Have, Democracy

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2016

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• Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children

  Michael Meacher

  Children, Future, Our World

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• Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

  Alan Lakein

  Leadership, Military, Future

  "The Importance of Planning Ahead" by Karen Trepte, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2017.

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• You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it

  James Callaghan

  Future, Government, Land

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference

  Wangari Maathai

  Real, Future, Differences

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• All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

  Kofi Annan

  Effort, Environmental, Degradation

  "In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all". Report for the United Nations sixtieth anniversary summit, 2005.

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