Quotes About Sustainability

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

Only through women's full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.

I heard that women are attracted to bad boys, so every once in a while, I throw a recyclable into the regular garbage.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.

With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

When women thrive, economies thrive.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

I like my women very green; you know, eco-friendly.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

You are not honored for the fruit you pick, but for the trees you plant.

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.

In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks' position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can - and have, in some cases - been able to educate and influence people.

When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.

I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.

The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all.

If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve.