"Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do."

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Hunter Lovins

#Smart Quotes #Environment Quotes #Sustainability Quotes

“My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.”
“But I am a widows son outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.”
“I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.”

Source : "Lauren Greenfield, Director of ‘The Queen of Versailles’". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 27, 2012.
“Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.”

Source : Thomas Traherne, Dick Davis (1980). “Selected writings of Thomas Traherne”, Carcanet Pr
“Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.”

Source : Robyn Carr (2014). “Forbidden Falls”, p.261, Harlequin
“Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.”

Source : "The Historian's Craft". Book by Marc Bloch, p. 36, 1949.
“Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.”
“Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.”

Source : John Angell James (1851). “The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality”, p.180

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