Vision Quotes
4020 quotes by 2453 authors
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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
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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
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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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Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive attractions…
— Jonathon Porritt
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Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived…
— Jonathon Porritt
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Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved
— Phil Harding
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...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better
— David Miliband
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The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
— Al Gore
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The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there was universal political…
— Jonathon Porritt
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Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the…
— Al Gore
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If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just…
— Gordon Brown
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Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk…
— Jonathan Dimbleby
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The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and…
— Sunita Narain
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...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may…
— Jonathon Porritt
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The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from…
— Donella Meadows
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Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be
— Niall FitzGerald
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I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability…
— Tony Blair
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The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and…
— Dave Hampton
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There can be no sustainable development without sustainable energy development
— Margot Wallstrom
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We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air
— Thales
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