Quotes About Sustainability

We're all on the same ball of mud and water that is heading toward a catastrophic end potentially. If we are going to solve these problems, we can't do it alone," he said. "That's why I think empathy is so valuable.

We could work less and buy less. It would prevent the environment—our habitat—from being systematically destroyed. But we don't do it, because we are isolated in our individual cages.

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.

I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

If you want to change the world, change it through the market

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!