Quotes About Sustainability

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

The future of India lies in its villages

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.

Natural gas is the future. It is here.

Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be

Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be

If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.

I think the future of food is in insects.

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.

We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.