Quotes About Sustainability

nature starts many more projects than she can ever finish.

Reason ... governs like a just and lawful prince, and the little community of man is thus held together and sustained.

We need a new set of wheels. Something fast but inconspicuous will do," I said. "And not a hybrid. You know I hate the environment.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Seen from this perspective, our unstable environment is the essential wellspring of human evolution and change, and the more serious our environmental problems become, the more creatively we are responding to the challenge.

Quality will save our company.

Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

From day one of my administration, we have been committed to ensuring that New Hampshire's natural beauty - which is critical to our quality of life - is conserved and enhanced for the next generation.

The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

Godrej is committed towards improving quality of life in society.

The loss of land for food security has to be measured not only in quantitative terms but also in respect of land use.

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands.

Auto executives have shunned the limits-of-growth issues and concentrated nearly all their energies on the next quarter's sales and next year's models.

I don't believe in management by fear. I also won't sacrifice the future of a company for a quarter.

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.

If you can't buy a hybrid car, your first question should be, 'What is the fuel economy of this car?'

We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable housing.

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.

I need quick, easy, and healthy meals that can power me through the day. I also try to eat locally grown and organic food as much as possible - it's the best for me and the environment.

I think it's important that culture is this ongoing thing that needs to be nurtured, because there is no such thing as a quick, arty fix.

People are quick to say with their mouth full, 'Well, the American farmer is on the dole.' But a loaf of bread is two bucks when it could be 10 bucks. I know what it is with the government in my business. We would be all for not having government in our business, but we need a fair system.