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Sustainability  Quotes
The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It’s as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking...

—Criss Jami

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Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman’s physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man’s mental safety.

—Criss Jami

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Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on...

—Gene Logsdon

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The idea of unlimited growth… needs to be seriously questioned on at least two counts: the availability of basic resources and… the capacity of the environment to cope with the degree of interference implied. –...

—Wayne Ellwood

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Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big and good difference. A person who has no self-interest to do things for others makes a bigger and better difference. But, one...

—Anuj Somany

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We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and...

—Jonathan Raban

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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?

—Alex Steffen

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We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

—Derrick Jensen

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Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more...

—Peter Joseph

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Sustainable Development is more than meeting the needs of today and the future generations; to my understanding this definition better fits sex industry.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to...

—Paul Newman

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I think all people want freedom, but they’ve got this idea inserted into their head about money.

—Andy Couturier

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It shouldn’t be the consumer’s responsibility to figure out what’s cruel and what’s kind, what’s environmentally destructive and what’s sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don’t need the option of buying...

—Jonathan Safran

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Some 3.6 million years ago, in what is now northern Tanzania, a volcano erupted, the resulting cloud of ash covering the surrounding savannahs. In 1979, the paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found in that ash footprints –...

—Carl Sagan

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To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There’s no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there’s a sense in which it...

—Derrick Jensen

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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.

—Rachel Held

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Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy than die from revolution. Both order and chaos are necessary ingredients for long...

—John Ikerd

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

—Robert Hacker

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Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

—Andy Couturier

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No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today’s world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole.

—Nayef Al-Rodhan

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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.

—Catherine Friend

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Inaction is no longer acceptable.

—Eric Lowitt

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

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

—Miguel Reynolds

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Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but...

—Wendell Berry

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Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?

—Andy Couturier

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The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

—Jeffrey D.

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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.

—Dan Barber

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

—Eric Lowitt

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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

—Robert Lynd

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Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial

—Miguel Reynolds

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Feeling at home anywhere on earth, and a foreigner even in the country where I was born, I consider myself an earthling, a citizen of the world.I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute...

—Yossi Ghinsberg

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Often I’ll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there’s no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the...

—Andy Couturier

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

—Jeffrey D.

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Kernkraftwerke hinzustellen, ohne zu wissen, wo der Atommüll endlagert werden kann, ist wie das Abziehen einer Handgranate bevor man weiss, wo man sie hinwerfen wird.

—Dieter Hildebrandt

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Gardening and making your own soap and home-birthing your babies are fine, but these are inherently limited actions. If we want to see genuine food safety, if we want to see sustainable products, if we...

—Emily Matchar

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ChangeDomesticityEquality
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I’m not one of those academics that don’t do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works.

—Ron Finley

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

—Miguel Reynolds

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I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are....

—Yossi Ghinsberg

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

—Andy Couturier

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

—Jeffrey D.

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

—Ha-Joon Chang

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EnvironmentGreenSustainability
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Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.

—George Washington

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We need to attach importance to the sustainability of economic growth. We also need a better use of resources and to protect the environment.

—Zheng Jingping

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

—Miguel Reynolds

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

—Steven M.

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

—Andy Couturier

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..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don’t have enough natural resources,...

—Mario J.

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Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not ever….It will be far cheaper, and entail no risk to human...

—Edward O.

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We don’t think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time,...

—Donella H.

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