Sustainability famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
-- Alan AtKisson -
Education beats at the heart of sustainability.
-- Andrea Illy -
Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.
-- Carlo Petrini -
a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.
-- David Ehrenfeld -
We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.
-- Derrick Jensen -
Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.
-- Hunter Lovins -
When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.
-- Janine Benyus -
GDP tells you nothing about sustainability
-- Joseph Stiglitz -
The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'
-- Mathis Wackernagel -
Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.
-- Murray Gell-Mann -
As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.
-- Norbert Reithofer -
The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.
-- Patrick Dixon -
If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.
-- Paul Polman -
We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both
-- Paul Polman -
Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.
-- William McDonough -
Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.
-- Chip Pitts -
The fashion industry is all about storytelling and craftsmanship. Sustainability adds value because it makes that backstory even more impactful.
-- Miroslava Duma -
This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have, we cannot gamble away our future.
-- Najib Razak -
The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.
-- Ron Finley -
The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.
-- David W. Orr -
I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.
-- Edward Burtynsky -
If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.
-- Wes Jackson
