Able Quote by Jonathon Porritt

During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way,…

— Daniel Quinn

The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even…

— Doris Lessing

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

— Frances Moore Lappé

The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us.

— Janine Benyus

“We live in perilous times and at crossroads. On the one hand, we risk our extinction and that of our planet because of the…

— Deepak Chopra

We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are faced with…

— David Grinspoon

Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we…

— Al Gore

Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look…

— Helena Norberg-Hodge

All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human…

— Barton Seaver

We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have…

— Charles Lindbergh

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether…

— Timothy Geithner

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely…

— Jason Alexander