Creation Quote by Rohini Nilekani Download Open image “We often destroy ecology-based livelihoods in the name of employment creation.” — Rohini Nilekani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creation Destroy Employment Environment Name
I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs. — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Economic desperation often drives wildlife destruction like poaching or illegal logging. But trade can help create powerful financial incentives for communities to preserve the… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to… — Kathleen Dean Moore Copy Share Image
However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
I was always clear that I didn't want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
No single institution or effort can effectively create solutions for societal problems. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Addressing governance issues are important because whichever silo you work in, be it education, microfinance, sanitation, food or health, you would eventually hit governance… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Often, our laws and policies reflect patriarchal biases that can trap men in stereotypes - for example, the idea of guarding the modesty of… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
What role can such philanthropy play in a society like ours? For one, philanthropic capital can go where markets will not go and where… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
It was only in 2001 that I set up a foundation, Arghyam. That was pretty much to learn the ropes of how to give,… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
History has shown us many times that if the state repressively forces the redistribution of wealth and social justice, it becomes dangerous both for… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while,… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
I believe if there is a creator it will basically ask me two questions, how well did you enjoy my creation and what did… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed… — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally,… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
