Environment Quote by William McDonough Download Open image “Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.” — William McDonough ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Environment Forever Inspirational Love Sustainability
Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever. — Arron Wood Copy Share Image
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
We can't start with big thinking, we have to approach it little by little. Sustainability isn't going to become big right away. Each day… — Maria Cornejo Copy Share Image
Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
It will take time to educate people about sustainability, why it is so important and how it will make a difference to our planet. — Sanya Malhotra Copy Share Image
That the word 'sustainable' can be a bit intimidating, but it's just about keeping an eye on your daily decisions. — Miquita Oliver Copy Share Image
...there's no such thing as sustainability. There are just levels of it. It's a process, not a real goal. All you can do is… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon.… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making. — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Create an environment for people to fail, to learn, and to grow. Their creativity and productivity will increase. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
