Sustainability Quotes

Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

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.

The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

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

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

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

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

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

Education beats at the heart of sustainability.

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

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

GDP tells you nothing about sustainability

The fashion industry is all about storytelling and craftsmanship. Sustainability adds value because it makes that backstory even more impactful.

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

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

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

The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'

If you go from the USA - which, relative to the rest of the world, is in pretty good shape in terms of biodiversity and sustainability - to the tropics, everything gets worse. You have Indonesia, which is destroying its own forest. In West Africa there's no control whatsoever. It's a global situation. For that reason it ties in clearly with the needs and relationships of low-income countries.

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.