Quote by Stephen L. Petranek

People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be…

— Dan Phillips

For anything or anyone to grow, a conducive atmosphere is required.

— Govinda

The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural context will…

— John Todd

I think the more prominent the actual product in its raw nature is to its final consumer, the more sympathy and likelihood they'll consume…

— Mario Batali

As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and…

— Diane Ackerman

Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew…

— Tony Fadell

We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.

— Bill McKibben

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

— Lorrie Moore

I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments…

— John F. Kennedy

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

— Ken Yeang

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself.…

— Eva Herzigova

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify…

— William McDonough