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Quotes About Sustainability

If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't
~ Jonathon Porritt
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
~ Penelope Keith
Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.
~ Achim Steiner
New Zealand looks like the future to me
~ Paula Scher
We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.
~ Gilberto Gil
We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
The future will either be green or not at all.
~ Bob Brown
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.
~ David Korten
The car is the cigarette of the future.
~ Jaime Lerner
This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
~ Ban Ki-moon
I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
~ Steve Irwin
Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.
~ William F. Schulz
I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.
~ Annie Leibovitz
As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.
~ Unknown
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
~ Wendell Berry
Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.
~ Colman McCarthy
The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.
~ Ron Dennis
Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.
~ Thomas Friedman
The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food.
~ Mian Muhammad Mansha
My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.
~ Unknown
I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.
~ George H. W. Bush
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
~ B. F. Skinner
I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.
~ Barack Obama