Quotes About Sustainability

Urban planning should be done with the mindset that we are determining the city's fabric for 100 years to come.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

The land belongs to the people who work it.

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands and every (lawful) business transaction."

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.