Quotes On Economic Development And Environment

#1. In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. - Author: Richard G. Wilkinson

#2. The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us. - Author: Megan Smolenyak

#3. I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot - Author: Nadia Comaneci

#4. I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing. - Author: James L. Brooks

#5. Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance. - Author: Ma Jun

#6. There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. - Author: Samuel Johnson

#7. Mr. Zweig always encouraged his friends to set down their reminiscences, not necessarily for publication but for the pleasure and benefit of their children, their families. In his opinion every life includes inner or external experiences worthy of record. - Author: Stefan Zweig

#8. Art is evidence of our most creative moment. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used new technologies - we've used science; we've used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete. - Author: Barack Obama

#10. Throw massive amounts of deception and the father of lies (yes, I'm referring to Satan) into the mix and you now have ignorance bordering on the fine lines of wickedness and evil. It's easy to be lured into something we hear about, but cannot actually see. - Author: K.J. Masters

#11. Nature is not a drag on growth. Its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development - Author: Tony Juniper

#12. I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why. - Author: Robert Caro

#13. No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these. - Author: James Mill

#14. Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival. - Author: Richard Branson

#15. Countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development. - Author: John Naisbitt

#16. I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days. - Author: Tom Hodgkinson

#17. 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. - Author: Narendra Modi

#18. Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development. - Author: Zhou Shengxian

#19. 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. - Author: Ban Ki-moon

#20. I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing Asia is to reconcile Asia's rapid economic development with care for the environment. - Author: Tommy Koh

#21. Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment. - Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson

#22. The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment. - Author: Van Jones

#23. The times when I feel not alive is when I feel stifled, when I feel like the emotion that's in me is not coming out. I'm too busy, too hectic. I'm serving my iPhone more than my spirit. Those are the times I feel bad. - Author: Michael Franti