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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

..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,...

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

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,...

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

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

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

We’re reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we’ve placed on her, if we don’t lift the burden ourselves.

Il ne peut pas y avoir un développement infini dans un univers fini.

. . . .how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world–and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that...

We’re experiencing the genesis of a community where it does not matter where your roots lie, but what you believe in. We will continue to create an inclusive and sustainable spirit, spreading the word from...

Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are people who have entered into the exercise of imagining and bringing into being...

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

Glorify Sustainable Organisations since they benefit all society

When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, we’re being metaphorical obviously. I mean, plants do not have consciousness. But, this...

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

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

Business is the most important institution on the planet for furthering human flourishing.

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

For organisations to become truly sustainable we believe it is essential to create a new organisation model: a more cooperative leader, a new way for people to cooperate inside the organisation and a new way...

Monoculture is mono for the earth.

Limitless material growth is not sustainable or moral.

huge,” namely our huge energy consumption. To make this comparison, we need numbers, not adjectives.

If you can’t reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an...

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the...

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

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

Make no mistake. The greatest destroyer of ecology. The greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution. The greatest purveyor of violence, war, crime, poverty, animal abuse and inhumanity. The greatest generator of personal and social...

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...

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...

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. –...

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?

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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 –...

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...