Quotes About Sustainability

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

Be gentle with the earth.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.