Sustainable Development Quotes

140 Sustainable Development quotes by 83 unique authors

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 — Unknown Author
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
Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we… — Ellen MacArthur
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… — Wangari Maathai
As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important… — Wangari Maathai
If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in… — George Meyer
The future will be green, or not at all — Jonathon Porritt
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them — Paul Hawken
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air,… — Paul Hawken
...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations — Jonathon Porritt
It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient — Barack Obama
Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are… — Dave Hampton
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… — Daisaku Ikeda
It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums — Tim Yeo

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