Development Quote by Tony Juniper

Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain…

— Kofi Annan

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

— Henry Paulson

Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

— Patrick Lencioni

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

— Richard G. Wilkinson

“The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing…

— Craig Dilworth

Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

— Helen Clark

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we…

— Tony Blair

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

— Jose Angel Gurria

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

— Paul Polman

The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but…

— Robert Heilbroner

Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using resources much…

— John B. Cobb

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

— Theodore Roosevelt