Future Quotes

11558 quotes by 6062 authors

We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world… — Jonathon Porritt
Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world — Phil Harding
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different — Roberto Unger
We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren — Prince Charles
The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering… — Prince Charles
Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are — Jonathon Porritt
The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving… — Satish Kumar
Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues — Jonathon Porritt
It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future — Desmond Tutu
We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see… — James Hansen
In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder — David J. C. MacKay
We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science — James Lovelock
What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation — Ed Mayo
We have a dire need to get onto the page as a sustainable country — Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham
...four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of believers were to… — Ian Christie
Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on… — Ian Christie
Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension... — Fred Hoyle
A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is — George Alagiah
Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That… — Sara Parkin
When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our… — Ellen MacArthur

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