Quotes About Sustainable Environment

#1. We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.

Jim Clyburn

#2. Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.

Maurice Strong

#3. If we are to be women in power, then it must be power on very different terms. we have to find a new source of energy. New structures of power. Ones that don't deplete us or our environment. We need to run our lives on sustainable energy.

Lucy H. Pearce

#4. Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

#5. Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

Elon Musk

#6. [O]rganizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.

Fritjof Capra

#7. It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.

Dennis Kucinich

#8. It's cool when fashion recycles itself, it's not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.

Cameron Conaway

#9. I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Bruce Davison

#10. The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.

Ban Ki-moon

#11. Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

Andy Hargreaves

#12. For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

Gautama Buddha

#13. If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.

Narendra Modi

#14. We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Wangari Maathai

#15. Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.

Dean Kamen

#16. You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

Jane Austen

#17. Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

Pope Benedict XVI

#18. In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

Esther Hicks

#19. It is only individual great forces, which must be pulled together, in our common vision of combating the climate change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing a sustainable future for us all

Lionel Shriver

#21. I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

Frank Murkowski

#22. You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today.

Brian Tracy

#23. A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

Phil Harding

#24. No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

John Denver

#25. The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

Ian Lowe

#26. As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy.

Bernie Sanders

#27. Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations.

Sylvia Dolson

#28. That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

John Green

#29. Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

Bill Gates

#30. The current practices of distributing resources are not sustainable and will continue to harm the environment if we do not evolve our methods into procedures that are more practical based on the needs of today's society.

Joseph P. Kauffman