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Quotes About Growth

It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a soul mate!
~ Judith Orloff
It's not the burden of your mate or anyone else to heal your emotional issues.
~ Judith Orloff
Residual emotions always show up from time to time in our daily lives until we completely offload them.
~ Santosh Joshi, KEYS
Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen
~ Maeve Binchy
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
~ Brooks Stevens
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
~ Ilya Ehrenburg
Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.
~ Bruce Lee
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
~ Langston Hughes
As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.
~ Margaret Laurence
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
~ Fidel Castro
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.
~ Jimmy Carter
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.
~ Meg Whitman
Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.
~ Unknown
So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.
~ Ramez Naam
I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.
~ Unknown
We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years
~ Unknown
A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.
~ Gloria Steinem
Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.
~ Lester R. Brown
If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.
~ Zhou Shengxian
We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.
~ Kesha Rogers
While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.
~ Paul Newman
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
~ Unknown