Quotes About Sustainability

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective.

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.

The number one thing that kills businesses in Africa is power - or the lack of power.

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

My idea of opening a restaurant was important. The whole point is that I couldn't have been totally dependent on acting for my income... even though I want to remain in the field of entertainment forever.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

At Unilever, we operate in 190 countries with two billion people using our products daily. We take climate seriously because we know that it impacts those two billion people - and that means it impacts us, too.

All business must have a social license to operate.

I think we'll still be operating coal in 2030. Whether we will be in 2040, I think, is a question, or in 2050.

Things last either too long or not long enough.

I believe I am to have enough to live on for about eighteen months at any rate, so that, if I may not write beautiful books, I may at least read beautiful books, and what joy can be greater?

Then Scale by scale, We strip off The delicacy And eat The peaceful mush Of its green heart.

The more you depend on the will and Cosmic Energy to sustain yourself, the less your food requirements; the more you depend on food, the weaker your will and the less your recourse to Cosmic Energy.

This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

world comes to realize what I felt going up the hill, then there'll be a kind of right economy of living and of using and using up. Do you know what I mean?" Dannie had clenched his fist, but his eyes were bright as if he still laughed at himself. "Did you ever wear out a sweater

Empty landfills are the pits

What I would say to people right now is that you can't count on anything that you don't do yourself," Jim said. "If your hand don't put it there, and you don't provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can't count on anybody else to do it for you.

Over the last fifty years," the tall man declared, "our sins against Mother Nature have grown exponentially." He paused. "I fear for the soul of humankind.

Antimatter is the most powerful energy source known to man. It releases energy with 100 percent efficiency (nuclear fission is 1.5 percent efficient). Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation

Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation.

What good to conquer an enemy in battle, only to be vanquished by hunger or cold?

The final payment for America's cheap food of the last century is still outstanding.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.