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Quotes About Sustainability

Provocative and challenging The Social License makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as an integral part of their core business strategies.
~ Paul Polman
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
~ Garrett Hardin
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
~ Bob Brown
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
~ Garrett Hardin
We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet.
~ Richard Branson
The beast faith lives on its own dung.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.
~ Jeroen Dijsselbloem
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
~ Wendell Berry
You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.
~ Al Gore
Every flower can flourish with fertile soil and water.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to deal with unemployment than allowing yourself to be employed and remain unpaid!
~ Lukhman Pambra
We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.
~ Nikola Tesla
I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.
~ Elon Musk
Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.
~ Lisa P. Jackson
The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
~ Thomas Malthus
Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.
~ William McDonough
The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.
~ Ed Begley, Jr.
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.
~ Narendra Modi
We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.
~ Laurence Gonzales