Sustainability Quotes

In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.

Engage the whole community with a common purpose to build an innovative and sustainable enterprise.

I see entrepreneurship, like many other activities, as a type of mission. A mission by which we can provide better life chances and quality for both our current and future generations.

We need a new ethic of place, one that has room for salmon and skyscrapers, suburbs and wilderness, Mount Rainier and the Space Needle, one grounded in history.

Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination

Everyone has the power to make a difference, to themselves and others, and to our world.

...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.

The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes

Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

No matter how big a company is, one has to always look at business basics.

Inaction is no longer acceptable.

If left unexecuted, even the greatest competitive strategies are not worth the paper on which they were written.

Limitless material growth is not sustainable or moral.

The focus of innovations and investments need to shift from slogging innovations like phone and, drone type innovations to solve real problems that are killing the inhabitants of the planet.

If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough.

Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution.

Love foods that sustain and protect you, and love you back.

Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat.

Social entrepreneurship represents the opportunity to redefine the role of government.

While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.

What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing poor work we weaken our bodies and lose conviviality and health? (Health is Membership, pg. 93)

Monoculture is mono for the earth.

The aquatic environment must be safeguarded by men. God created mankind to care for the environment and all the living resources.

Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company.

Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.

I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations.

You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Banks should actively encourage companies that are doing a good job on environmental and social fronts. Banking for community development is the banking of future.

The New Economy brings the need to tap people’s curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society.

Taking measures to ensure stability could assure the long-term economic growth and welfare at a global level

Glorify Sustainable Organisations since they benefit all society

Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.

It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!