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“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”

Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle

“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

“We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.”

Years Two Seems Past Situation Policy Gains Regard Raised Two Years Sustainability Equity Caution

Author:Alan Greenspan

“To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.”

Economy Serious Sustainability Consumption Wages Hiring Impetus Lag

Author:Stephen S. Roach

“We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.”

“Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.”

Men Force Growing Subjects Awareness Creation Depends Survival Harmony Environmental Welfare Combat Cosmic Sustainability Here And There

Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

“Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.”

Energy Answers Amount Climate Environmental Climate Change Global Warming Sustainability Renewable Energy

Author:Christiana Figueres

“It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.”

World Matter Used Survival Percent Sustainability Buzz

Author:Cameron Sinclair

“Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?”

Needs Mean Political Goal Economic Sustainability Uncertain Ecological Insufficient Very Mean Uncertain Times

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity.”

World Individual Process Goal Voice Identity Development Shapes Skills Foundation Democratic Sustainability Literacy Democratic Process Cultural Identity

Author:Irina Bokova

“The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.”

“The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs while insuring their preservation for future generations requires a delicately balanced and continuing program, based on the most extensive research. Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.”

Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

“Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.”

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

Ifs Want Two Creativity Budgets Zero Sustainability

Author:Jaime Lerner

“The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.”

Men World Modern Highest Capacity Plant Environmental Regions Sustainability Unlimited Modern Science Unexplored

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“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.”

Needs Use Home Justice Millions Share Planets Demand Resources Species Sustainability

Book:Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace

Source: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace

“That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of cities. The ability of cities to, over time, remain in balance with the resource streams that are available to them, and they have to do with social justice and equity of the fundamental conditions of satisfactory citizenship.”

Thinking Important Ideas Social Justice Ability Cities Vision Conditions Balance Resources Social Justice Fundamentals Available Streams Sustainability Citizenship Equity Utopian

Author:William J. Mitchell

“The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.”

“The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.”

Way Problem Bigs Poverty Planets Goes On Conflict Disease Environmental Sustainability Decline Big Problems Interconnected Global Poverty

Author:Alex Steffen

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

Clear Concepts Concerned Climate Change Defined Sustainability Premium

Author:Norbert Reithofer

“The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.”

Understanding Keys Sustainability One Word

Author:Patrick Dixon

“Sustainability has become an ornament.”

Sustainability Ornaments

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Issues Intellectual Concerned Green Response Deeper Profession Architecture Related Engaged Consideration Sustainability Caricatures

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.”

People Way Feels Done Vision Steps Achieve Encouragement Environmental Enthusiasm Sustainability Concrete Fright Inspirational Environmental

Book:To Have Or To Be?

Source: To Have Or To Be?

“As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale.”

Source: Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

“For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.”

Earth Planets Survival Species Climate Change Missions Protection Global Warming Sustainability Dharma Planet Earth Ecosystems

Author:Rajendra K. Pachauri

“Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.”

World Courses Challenges Chance Path Development Offers Resources Climate Climate Change Destroying Sustainability Sustainable Development Looming Limited Resources

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.”

“Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.”

Firsts Different Groups Information Ocean Blue Available Guides Pockets Sustainability Institute Seafood Evaluation Downloads Blue Ocean

Author:Carl Safina

“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.”

Needs Issues Cooks Sustainability Chef Delicious Delicious Food

Author:Rene Redzepi

“Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.”

World Use Energy Growth Wealth Leader Technology Share Creating Models Japan Sustainability Efficiency Innovative Expertise Energy Efficiency

Author:Yoshihiko Noda

“Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.”

“The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite. The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable. There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.”

“If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.”

Ifs Years Humanity Race Responsibility Environment Achieve Planets Type Behavior Decades Sustainability Taking Responsibility Shifting Our Planet Triggers Our Environment

Author:Yehuda Berg

“A highly worthwhile read with prescriptive examples for authentic sustainability and social justice initiatives at companies - not all about the brand, the celebrity or corporate self-interest (about the book 'Compassion, Inc.').”

Book Self Social Interest Justice Company Compassion Example Social Justice Brands Corporate Worthwhile Sustainability Initiative Self Interest

Author:Rebecca Aguilar

“a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.”

Angry Driven Selfish Collections Bottles Individualism Sustainability Scorpions

Author:David Ehrenfeld

“I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and also reaching out to rural and regional Australia in order to assist in the sustainability crisis and the food security crisis.”

Want Order Community Security Crisis Reaching Australia Progressive Reach Out Sustainability Proactive Food Security

Author:Christine Milne

“Each of us has a responsibility for the sustainability of our planet and each of us can make a difference if we choose to do so.”

Ifs Differences Responsibility Planets Making A Difference Sustainability Our Planet

Author:Miranda Kerr

“The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability.”

Helping Opportunity Technology Environment Green Employment Serving Sustainability Promoting Employment Opportunities

Author:Anuj

“Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big difference. A person who has no self-interest to do things for others makes a bigger difference. But, one who does everything for everyone for the sake of humanity without vested interest makes a real big difference for sustainability.”

Persons Doe Real Self Bigs Humanity Interest Differences Bigger Sake Making A Difference Sustainability Self Interest Vested Interests

Author:Anuj

“The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom, beauty, truth, equality, community, sustainability and, most of all, love. These are the things we live for, and the innovations that really make a difference are the ones that are life-enhancing. And that’s why the heart of innovation is a desire to re-enchant the world.”

World Heart Joy Desire Community Differences Ideals Innovation Noble Pursuit Making A Difference Sustainability Timeless

Author:Gary Hamel

“Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability - whether they are easily measured or not.”

Should Done Creativity Trouble Diversity Aim Property Resilience Stability Sustainability

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.”

“... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?”

People Religious Concerned Species Environmental Arguing Sustainability Extinction

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.”

Way Long Lasts Economy Mines Materials Balls Environmental Productions Forests Characteristics Soil Farms Destroying Sustainability Erosion Topography Soil Erosion

Author:Wendell Berry

“A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused on the health of the planet and the poor than on material acquisitions and military might. While it is a fundamentally new endeavor, with many uncertainties, it is far less risky than continuing with business as usual.”

“Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it is today to support a population nearly double its current size, then technology will have to reduce its impact twenty-fold merely to keep the planet at its current levels of environmental impact. For example, to stabilize the climate we may have to reduce real carbon emissions by as much as 80 percent, while simultaneously growing the world economy by an order of magnitude.”

Source: Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World

“For those who believe that ecological disaster will somehow be averted, it must also be clear that, over the next decade or so, sustainable development will constitute one of the biggest opportunities in the history of commerce. And innovation will be the name of the game.”

Believe Next Opportunity Games Names Clear Development Innovation Environmental Decades Disaster Sustainability Commerce Ecological Sustainable Development

Book:Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World

Source: Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World

“Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.”

Earth Mother Lord Produce Flower Fruit Environmental Sustainability Herbs Mother Earth

Book:The Little Flowers of St. Francis: The Mirror of Perfection; The Life of St. Francis

Source: The Little Flowers of St. Francis: The Mirror of Perfection; The Life of St. Francis

“Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so.”

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