Sustainable Development Quotes
140 Sustainable Development quotes by 83 unique authors
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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…
— Barack Obama
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.
— Maurice Strong
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Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by…
— Maurice Strong
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
— Peter Ustinov
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One planet, one experiment.
— E. O. Wilson
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Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are…
— Wangari Maathai
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
— Terence McKenna
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It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty…
— Michel de Montaigne
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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
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
— Rachel Carson
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Resources businesses must contribute to sustainable development if we are to continue to have access to resources.
— Cynthia Carroll
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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…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance…
— Ban Ki-moon
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We know that when women have access to voluntary family planning services, supplies and information, society sees enormous gains in each of the three pillars…
— Jenny Shipley
Who Wrote These Sustainable Development Quotes
83 authors contributed a total of 140 Sustainable Development Quotes, led by these top contributors: