Sustainable Life Quotes

#1. 50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together.

Mark Bittman

#2. In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not insistent on continuing growth and a throw away society.

David De Kretser

#3. This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.

Eric Pianka

#4. My need is for safety, fun and to have distribution of resources, a sustainable life on the planet. NVC is a strategy that serves me to meet these needs.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#5. I felt that I had entered one of the most creative periods of my life. But it was neither balanced nor sustainable, and I sensed that I was quickly approaching a crossroads in my life.

Elle Luna

#6. To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable.

Tony Robbins

#7. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Albert A. Bartlett

#8. The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

Arundhati Roy

#9. The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.

Joanna Macy

#10. Only through women's full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,

Ban Ki-moon

#11. The system of consumerism may seem like an immovable fact of modern life. But it is not. That the system was manufactured suggests that we can reshape those forces to create healthier, more sustainable system with a more fulfilling goal than 'more stuff

Rachel Botsman

#12. A balance between sustainable ecology and sustainable human life, on the one hand, and the unfettered drive for profit, on the other, is just an oxymoron.

David Suzuki

#13. Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

Werner Herzog

#14. Sustainable happiness is important, because it not only elevate our own wellbeing locally, but also contributes to collective global flourishing.

Lisa Cypers Kamen

#15. Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems

Sara Parkin

#16. A success catalyst has the ability to spark significant and sustainable changes, inspire possibilities and accelerate results.

Vishwas Chavan

#17. There are people who bring joy to our lives, but who fail to make us happy. They are the people for the moment. Never rely on their love because it is not sustainable. Their love is alike a comet that illuminates the sky, but then fades away because it lacks the sustainable energy of the sun.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#18. A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.

Russell Simmons

#19. Rather, the goal is that at the conclusion of our life, each of us can look back on the path we took and say not that we contributed to the creation of our small part but that we worked together, building on our relative strengths to create a greater, more sustainable whole.

Antony Bugg-Levine

#20. I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world

Antony Burgmans

#21. Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life

Richard Rogers

#22. the goal of sustainable development is "to enable all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and enjoy a better quality of life, without compromising the quality of life of future generations.

Krasimir Kirov

#23. If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Winona LaDuke

#24. Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Kofi Annan

#25. The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Peter Watts

#26. Manufacturers have long chosen plastic for their products on the basis of price and functionality., But creating a more sustainable relationship with plastics will require a new dexterity on our part. It will require us to think about the entire life cycle of the products we create and use.

Susan Freinkel

#27. I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

Alanis Morissette

#28. We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

Janet Holmes A Court

#29. Global warming will not end by Earth finding a shade under the trees but under our hands joined together

Agona Apell

#30. I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#31. Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

Sha Zukang

#32. I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

Ellen Page

#33. Breathless living is anything but the abundant life. The pace at which we live is not sustainable.

Stephen W. Smith

#34. Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental benefits.

Bob Chiarelli

#35. Your life moves to a better place when you move at a sustainable pace

Jeff Henderson

#36. Happiness is your inherent nature. In the hustle and bustle of life, you have forgotten a part of yourself, and looking for it outside. Fill this void with happiness that is sustainable, not transitory; that illuminates your life and that of others, that is life giving and so natural.

Sanchita Pandey