Best Sustainability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 12

“I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.”

People Thinking Want Should Writing Social Justice Consciousness Compassion Empathy Social Justice Environmental Impulse Sustainability

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I think that when you start your own business you have to be very clear on what you're passionate about and what your values are. I was very passionate about travel and I wanted to inspire other people. At the same time, I knew if I was going to start my own business, it was going to have to mirror my values, and I knew I was passionate about the environment and about sustainability.”

People Ifs Thinking Wanted Values My Own Clear Environment Inspire Mirrors Passionate Sustainability Own Business Inspire Others

Author:Omar Samra

“This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.”

Motivational Industry Creating Giants Sustainability Steel Steel Industry

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future. BMW, like no other brand, will still stand for vitality and driving pleasure in the future. But it will also represent efficiency and environmental friendliness.”

Stills Pleasure Clear Concepts Concerned Environmental Driving Defined Brands Sustainability Efficiency Vitality Premium Friendliness Bmw

Author:Norbert Reithofer

“How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same.”

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Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and what that means about living in harmony, in tandem with the natural world. We have much to learn from them, and they will survive us, I feel certain about that.”

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Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.”

Years Has Beens Responsibility Higher Mountain Impact Environmental Missions Harm Corporate Zero Climbing Sustainability Social Responsibility Footprint Everest Environmental Impact

Author:Ray Anderson

“Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.”

Justice Social Justice Sustainability Unjust

Book:A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity

Source: A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity

“During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.”

“I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.”

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Author:Ray Anderson

“I always make the business case for sustainability. It's so compelling. Our costs are down, not up. Our products are the best they have ever been. Our people are motivated by a shared higher purpose - esprit de corps to die for. And the goodwill in the marketplace - it's just been astonishing.”

People Purpose Dies Business Cases Products Higher Cost Motivated Sustainability Compelling Astonishing Marketplace Goodwill Higher Purpose Esprit De Corps

Author:Ray Anderson

“Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.”

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Author:Isaiah

“If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.”

“Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.”

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Author:Jane Goodall

“If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.”

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

Long Sustainability Abyss

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.”

People Way Feels Taste Locals Realization Farmers Sustainability Fisherman Dairy Biodiversity Doorstep

Author:Alice Waters

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

Ifs Firsts Happens Sustainability Agriculture

Author:Wes Jackson

“The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."”

“The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of making it happen is not on the shoulders of any one person or group. No one will get the credit, but everyone can contribute.”

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Book:Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

Source: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

“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.”

People Ifs Bigs Together Nations Levels Share Resources Sustainability Collapse

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world in combating climate change and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and toward energy efficiency and sustainability.”

“Every candidate running for president has got to answer the following very simple question: At a time when we need to address the planetary crisis of climate change, and transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainability, should we continue to give $135 billion in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade to fossil fuel companies?”

“It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.”

Care Locals Manage Complexity Sustainability Agriculture

Author:Vandana Shiva

“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.”

Moving Risk Moving Forward Our Future Sustainability Versus Continuity Gamble Disruption Mandates Stagnation

Author:Najib Razak

“All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.”

World Enough Faces Effort Planets Crisis Sustainability Conservation Our Planet

Author:Naveen Jain

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

Giving Dies Scales Sustainability Philanthropy Vines Bad Business

Author:Naveen Jain

“We are taught to reinvent ourselves all the time. And nature is teaching us. What is necessary for us to do to create sustainability? There's a shift that has to take hold in our thinking, and it's hard to know when it's going to click for the larger percentage of us.”

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Author:Horst Rechelbacher

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

People Wish Millions Conversation Sustainability Artwork

Author:Edward Burtynsky

“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.”

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Author:Chip Pitts

“Sustainability requires that we demand enduring quality. Steve Strong has a slide presentation pointing out that much of Oxford was built 800 years ago. What are we building today that will be here 800 years from now? If something like that emerged from this recession, it would help justify the hardship so many people are currently experiencing.”

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Author:Denis Hayes

“I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago. The buildings of those days were miracles. We don't perform such miracles today. So we should be a little more modest. For my part, I'll be glad to show one of my buildings one day to my grandchildren and say: I'm proud of that.”

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Author:Zhang Xin

“Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them with food, medical attention, education, and also focusing on sustainability.”

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Author:Patricia Velasquez

“The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.”

“Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.”

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Author:Rem Koolhaas

“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.”

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Author:Michael Azerrad

“I'm big on reworking vintage. Also, buying one great piece that lasts forever - to me, that is total sustainability.”

Bigs Lasts Forever Pieces Buying Sustainability Vintage

Author:Elizabeth Rogers

“I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.”

“A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.”

Thinking Way Mind Self Justice Roots Sustainability Ecology Fulfilling Prophecy Equity Way Of Thinking Self Fulfilling Prophecy Monoculture

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball.”

Thinking Would Be Used Behinds Balls Eight Sustainability Eight Ball

Author:Ted Leo

“Having a similar outlook on life is the central key for long-term sustainability in any love relationship.”

Long Life Is Term Keys Long Term Sustainability Outlook Love Relationship Outlook On Life

Author:John Friend

“All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.”

Trying Humans Asks Community Failing Endurance Sustainability

Author:Barton Seaver

“The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.”

Environmental Sustainability Funny Things

Author:Ron Finley

“First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in the world today than in his own lifetime from sustainability in terms of the environment to income inequality.”

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Author:Jonathon Keats

“I just sang, recently, for the Prime Minister of Bangladesh - the 34th most powerful woman in the world, according to Forbes Magazine. The United Nations had an event where her son got an award and they put me on this special program on competitiveness and sustainability, and we're talking about doing a world tour of me and the music.”

“Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.”

People Should Energy Clean Champion Sustainability Environmentalist Clean Energy

Author:Van Jones

“Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).”

Thinking Book Ends Growth Movement Depends Reader Sustainability Users

Author:Tom Peters

“[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture as well as the American culture, then we've done something that's really good and supporting these fishermen who are doing the right thing in sustainability . . . paying attention to make sure we don't overfish our world.”

“You have to be able to sustain life. So moments are going to be lighter, but moments are also going to be heavier. I think just the understanding that life goes in a million different directions, and hopefully, if you find excitement by what these characters are experiencing and what they're living through, and you're impacted by them as human beings, then that's the sustainability of the show [This is Us].”

Ifs Thinking Humans Different Moments Character Shows Able Understanding Human Beings Millions Hopefully Excitement Sustainability Lighters Different Directions

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“I am interested in the political economy of institutional power relationships in transition. The question is one of "reconstructive" communities as a cultural, as well as a political, fact: how geographic communities are structured to move in the direction of the next vision, along with the question of how a larger system - given the power and cultural relationships - can move toward managing the connections between the developing communities. There are many, many hard questions here - including, obviously, ones related to ecological sustainability and climate change.”

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