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Quotes About Sustainability

Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you
~ Judith Weir
Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
~ Marcus Buckingham
I think it's time we take a step back and recognize that while we are hurting our animals, we are hurting each other, and we are hurting our planet.
~ Nikki Reed
Time kept on and on like the cheapest toilet paper.
~ Porochista Khakpour
Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
~ Aldo Leopold
We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
~ Alice Waters
Working full-time should mean enough to support a family.
~ Barack Obama
At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.
~ Bill McKibben
A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.
~ Bill Mollison
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
~ Bob Brown
I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties.
~ Chuck Mosley
The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There will come a time when the Ministry of Health is the only Ministry we can afford to have and we still won't be able to afford the Ministry of Health
~ Dalton McGuinty
Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles.
~ Dave Winer
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.
~ David Suzuki
The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
~ Desmond Tutu
The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.
~ Eban Goodstein
It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.
~ Eban Goodstein
I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.
~ Minnie Driver
If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.
~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.
~ Stewart Brand
The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.
~ Terence McKenna