Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system…

All things are bound together. All things connect.

— Chief Seattle

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be…

— David W. Orr

In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny…

— Margaret Beckett

This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.

— Lakshmi Mittal

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

— Rob Hopkins

“COVID has momentarily changed our economic anchor, creating time and space for us to care about people and planet before profit”

— Richard Hodge

Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the…

— Toby Hemenway

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

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we…

— Vandana Shiva

“Always staying low key, you'll see me when you see me, but when you see me you'll know it's me”

— Erick "The Black Sheep" G

“Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of…

— Wendell Berry

[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture…

— Mario Batali

Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no…

— Ismail Serageldin

Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers…

— Francis of Assisi

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating…

— Yoshihiko Noda