Extravagant Quote by Roald Amundsen

“McMansions in sprawling suburbs, without mountains of unnecessary packaging, without giant mechanized monofarms, without energy-hogging big-box stores, without electronic billboards, without endless piles of…

— Charles Eisenstein

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that…

— William Wordsworth

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

— Michael Bloomberg

The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than…

— Raimond Gaita

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

— Jim Rohn

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

— Eamon de Valera

Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should…

— Christoph Waltz

I would rather my constituents were warm and prosperous than cold and impoverished as we are overtaken by emerging markets who understandably put people…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

— Patricia McCormick

In the grand scheme of things, polar bears are the least of our problems when it comes to climate change.

— Emily Calandrelli

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

— Ann Leckie

We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from…

— Paul R. Ehrlich