Quotes About Green Buildings

#1. An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.

Jan Gehl

#2. The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.

Jamshyd Godrej

#3. We shouldn't just look at new buildings but at existing stock building because that's an even greater problem than the new buildings being built. The renovation of existing buildings and making them green is just as important as designing new green buildings.

Ken Yeang

#4. From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.

Leland Stanford

#5. People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.

Harper Lee

#6. Every time the sun shines through the rain, I will look for you. I will look for you in rainbows, and I will remember a man who holds the whole sky in his eyes.

Leylah Attar

#7. I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.

Scott Lynch

#8. I dream of a house full of books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.

Steven Holl

#10. Edinburgh suited Ann; she liked the tall, dignified buildings of grey stone, the short days that sank into street-lamped evenings at five o'clock, and the dual personality of the city's main street, which on one side had glittering shops and on the other the green sweep of Princes Street Gardens.

Maggie O'Farrell

#11. Dresden: of all German cities, Smiley's favourite. He had loved its architecture, its odd jumble of medieval and classical buildings, sometimes reminiscent of Oxford, its cupolas, towers, and spires, its copper-green roofs shimmering under a hot sun.

John Le Carre

#12. I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

Martin Luther

#13. In the Middle East today there are too many people consumed by political dreams and too few interested in practical plans. That is why, to paraphrase Winston Churchill's line about the Balkans, the region produces more history than it consumes.

Fareed Zakaria

#14. That grin of his was torture on the balls.

Jack L. Pyke

#15. Will the roofs of new buildings be vegetated? If not, why not?

Tom Turner