Jonathon Porritt Quotes

#1. The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland. - Author: Anne Frank

#2. I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful. - Author: Jason Wu

#3. Living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may have to say about that! - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#4. I want the players to play that way, so I'd better manage that way. The philosophy has been thrown out there. We've been talking about it. We've been working on it, so let's see how it works. Let's see if theory and reality can come together. - Author: Joe Maddon

#5. I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#6. When you fall in love, when Love really does its worst, it gives you no cause. It swallows you whole. It allows no refusals. Like Jonah only after he had been inside the whale awhile, you may say, if asked, Oh, this is why I am here. - Author: Candice Raquel Lee

#7. We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough? - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#8. What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#9. Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that. - Author: Rohan Candappa

#10. Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world. - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#11. There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. - Author: Frank Herbert

#12. Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#13. These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. - Author: James Otis

#14. Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter. - Author: Tyler Florence

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Maybe one day when we're older and wiser, our paths will cross again and we can do it right. You're the love of my life. I can't believe I let that slip away. I hope one day it'll come back.
All of my love and apologies are forever yours, as am I.
S - Author: Emily Trunko

#16. The core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#17. I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate. - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#18. Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#19. It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#20. The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes. - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#21. As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated. - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#22. If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#23. Work, fight, live. All the sweeter. Mind after mind will shape and absorb. In the end, all will be quiet with wisdom. - Author: Greg Bear

#24. The future will be green, or not at all - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#25. I do not know how long 'twill be, nor what the future holds for me, but this I know, if Jesus leads me, I shall get home someday ... - Author: Lynn Austin

#26. We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#27. Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. - Author: Joseph Joubert

#28. Deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#29. The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive. - Author: Alex Graves

#30. But a fix, some magic cure to his "poor" status, was really only a dream; reality usually took precedence over everything else, especially dreams. - Author: M.L. Sanford

#31. We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status - Author: Jonathon Porritt

#32. Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are - Author: Jonathon Porritt