Approach Quote by Maurice Strong

“Cultivate an environment fertile for good habits to flourish”

— Money Tree Man

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

— Herbert Hoover

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all…

— Jeremy Grantham

Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets…

— Peter Marshall

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the…

— Pope John Paul II

We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece,…

— Ted Danson

The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to…

— Vandana Shiva

“the majority of our most serious environmental problems start right here, at home, and if we are to solve these problems, we need an…

— Steven Vogel

Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of…

— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote…

— Mark Udall

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be…

— Ivan Illich

Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the…

— Pope John Paul II