Quotes About Sustainability

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

The future will belong to the nature-smart.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.

Treat the Earth as though we intend to stay here

Coal is an essential part of America's energy future, not to mention an important part of Pennsylvania's economy.

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.

I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data compiled by Dr. Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research.

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.