Quotes About Environmental Sustainability

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

Phil Harding

#2. I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability ...

Stephane Dion

#3. There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

Thomas Perez

#4. The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.

Paul Raskin

#5. As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

Asne Seierstad

#6. Evolutionary biologist Ryan Gregory put it, anyone who thinks he or she can assign a function to every letter in the human genome should be asked why an onion needs a genome that is about five times larger than a person's. Who's resorting

Matt Ridley

#7. If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

Wendell Berry

#8. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination

Janine Benyus

#9. I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

Audre Lorde

#10. I'm not out there suggesting that we should ban every plastic product. But there are some whose environmental costs exceed their utility, and the [plastic] bag is one of them.

Susan Freinkel

#11. More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.

Simon Mainwaring

#12. Don't let them win. Don't let them beat you. Don't let them steal your magic.

Brom

#13. We've got some talented people in my family in regards to football, and we do it the right way.

Clay Matthews III

#14. Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

Pope Benedict XVI

#15. We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.

Jochen Zeitz

#16. Implementation of a knowledge based economy is a significant precondition for environmental and social sustainability.

Eraldo Banovac

#17. An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.

Marty Rubin

#18. Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

Norbert Reithofer

#19. I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#20. The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an ever-increasing attention in themselves.

Marcel Proust

#21. Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty.

Noreena Hertz

#22. Whatever is necessary to do, you do it. When somebody needs to be killed, there's no wrong. You do it, and then you move on. And you pick up a child and you move him to the desert. You pick up as many children as you can, and you kill whoever gets in your way. That is us.

Sandra Good

#23. The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

Alex Steffen

#24. The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

William Kittredge

#25. Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Vladimir Nabokov

#26. The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.

David W. Orr

#27. For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.

Ray Anderson

#28. As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future. BMW, like no other brand, will still stand for vitality and driving pleasure in the future. But it will also represent efficiency and environmental friendliness.

Norbert Reithofer

#29. With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

Jamais Cascio

#30. After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

Maurice Strong

#31. Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life ...

Robert Henri

#32. Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.

Mark Parker