Sustainability Quotes

Sustainability Quote of the day

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

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

In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be

Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

If nations join together now, before the big collapse and share their resources, they can maintain a level of sustainability. Sustain the people that is, and not banks and businesses.

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

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

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

You didn't have to be a huge rock star; you just had to do well enough to continue doing what you wanted to do. It wasn't about hitting the jackpot, it was about sustainability.

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues

As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.