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“But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.”

Future Behavior Responsible Environmental Guarantees Sustainability

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.”

“In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.”

Humans May Seems Today Vision Democracy Environment Rights Future Conflict Resources Connections Tragedy Environmental Human Rights Obvious Decades Sustainable Development

Author:Wangari Maathai

“This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.”

“One planet, one experiment.”

Vision Environment Planets Future Environmental Experiments Environmentalism Sustainable Development

Author:E. O. Wilson

“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.”

Humans Character Nature Challenges Race Vision Virtue Future Ethics Environmental Human Race Mastery Sustainability Stewardship Sustainable Development Silent Spring Environmental Sustainability

Author:Rachel Carson

“The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.”

Inspiring Environment Future Intelligent Environmental Endure Simplicity Intelligence Compassionate Prosperous Sustainable Living Prosperous Future

Author:Paul Hawken

“If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.”

Ifs Knows Way Stories Would Be Past Nature Love You Future Environmental Wilderness Our Future Our Past Let It Go Unwilling

Book:Red: passion and patience in the desert

Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert

“If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.”

Source: The House of Intellect

“We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.”

People Needs Consciousness Vision Future Bases Environmental Educate Ecology Sustainable Development

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.”

Should Energy Policy Future Environmental Driven Renewable Energy Energy Policy Environmental Policy

Author:Tim Wirth

“Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity”

Heart Social Vision Failing Achieve Future Benefits Projects Environmental Prosperity Unlikely Sustainable Development Regeneration Short Lived

Author:Jonathon Porritt

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

Social Vision Economic Future Environmental Stability Sustainability Sustainable Development Cohesion Environmental Sustainability Economic Stability

Author:Phil Harding

“The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right”

Nature Vision Technology Air Future Resources Clean Environmental Oil Labour Willingness Metals Sustainable Development Clean Air

Author:Donella Meadows

“The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit”

People Two Earth Together Three Social Vision Economic Planets Development Future Thirds Dollars Species Environmental Profit Ecology Evident Our Planet Pillars Sustainable Development

Author:Dave Hampton

“When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care”

Knows May Care Vision Issues Generations Judging Future Environmental Future Generation Sustainable Development Environmental Issues

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it”

“Incorrect radiation levels may be able to affect your sex drive and it may be proven in the future that human sex drive is governed more by radiation types and levels than any other factor, even more so than hormones! Generally, a feeling of contentment replaces sexual desire in natural radiation environments.”

Source: Electrical Forensics