Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems…

We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model…

— Fritjof Capra

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled…

— Anonymous

We know that when women have access to voluntary family planning services, supplies and information, society sees enormous gains in each of the three…

— Jenny Shipley

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water…

— Helen Clark

We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth.

— Sylvia Earle

What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing…

— Mirah

Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the…

— Fred Krupp

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and…

— Al Gore

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused…

— Lester R. Brown

Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet

— Phil Harding

School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school…

— Shaheen Mistri

I am passionate about making sure that we collectively and proactively preserve all of the world's most iconic coastal and oceanic wild places -…

— Serge Dedina

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

— Bill Gates

Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and…

— Kofi Annan

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

— E. O. Wilson