Challenges Quote by Lester R. Brown Download Open image “Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.” — Lester R. Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Challenges Environmental Extremist Harvest Humanity May Next
Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting? — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
Every new generation is a new crop that needs to be harvested for God. — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
The law of the harvest is inexorable (impossible to stop or prevent) . As we sow, so shall we reap. — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I think now, with our technology, our capacity to grow food, our ability to stop raping the Earth and destroying the ecology and killing… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
We must continue as in millennia past, nourishing the future as we feed ourselves and, each year, plant only the very best of what… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at stake. It's… — Anohni Copy Share Image
The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“Doing the work to transform your dreams into reality is like walking across the earth. It can be that hard, and it can take… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges. — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts— so what? ” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
I personally think if something's not a challenge, there's no point doing it, because you're not gonna learn much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image