Sustainability Quotes Quotes

“If modern environmentalism continue on the current path of wilding the city, future urban dwellers might as well live in tree houses, for all the difference it will make.”
― Archimedes Muzenda, Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities

“You are not helping the planet, you are not helping nature, you are the planet, you are nature, you are helping yourself”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Implementing Green Infrastructure on the company’s properties is one of the simplest ways to improve its ESG performance.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“We are gods and might as well get good at it.”
― Stuart Brand

“Climate change may be far beyond the concerns of people in the midst of a life-and-death emergency, but it might eventually make the Mumbai slums uninhabitable, send enormous new waves of refugees across the Mediterranean, and lead to a worldwide crisis in healthcare.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Heaviness is uplifting. Heaviness is strengthening. Heaviness is sustainable. Not the gloomy kind of heaviness that characterizes a state of depression and hopelessness—which we must do our best not to fall into when listening to discouraging facts about climate changes and pollution—but the em- powering kind of heaviness that fills your life with substance, when you engage in meaningful projects”
― Kristine H. Harper, Anti-trend, Resilient Design and the Art of Sustainable Living

“If we could treat every natural resource as a gift rather than a commodity, we would be on the path to sustainability. The difference is that a gift does not belong to us but to the universe. It comes into our lives from a source that is unknown and ultimately unknowable; eventually , it returns to its source.”
― Victor Shamas, The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration

“Yet it has to be recognized that these checklists conform to managerial norms of measuring sustainability because they are made up of easily quantifiable items: more solar roofs, less airborne particulates; more transit riders, less water use per capital; more housing density, less golf courses. Greening the world, from this standpoint, suggests that the ecological crisis can be fixed by making slight technical adjustments to people's habits and interactions with their daily environments. When sustainability is defined by a set of metrics, it reflects a purely physical understanding of how societies strive to be ecologically resilient. By contrast, there are no indexes for measuring environmental justice, no indicators for judging equity of access to the green life, and no technical quantum for assessing the social sustainability of a population. The vogue for green governance by the numbers is a recipe for managing, rather than correcting, inequality.”
― Andrew Ross, Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

“COVID has momentarily changed our economic anchor, creating time and space for us to care about people and planet before profit”
― Richard Hodge, What The Hell Do We Do Now?: An enterprise guide to COVID-19 and beyond

“Being a good human being is good business.”
― Paul Hawken - environmentalist, entrepreneur and writer

“if we designed our buildings the way we design our gardens, with only aesthetics in mind, they would fall down.”
― Douglas Tallamy

“All we need is to take an climate action now! Environment destruction of our common home increases every day. We need a better rain distribution on Earth, ecological awareness of minners, farmers and industry for the sustainable exploration of our natural resources.”
― Ronald Sanson Stresser Junior

“One could argue that time is the most valuable thing we have or “own.” We even seem to have a cultural and societal agreement on this, materializing in sayings like “time flies,” “life is short,” “our children are only on loan,” etc. It therefore seems odd that time is one of the “things” that we easily give away. We sell our time for money that we spend on new consumer goods instead of limiting our consumption in order to make it possible to sell less of our time. We engage in “ought to” events and arrangements that we don’t really want to attend in order to fit in. We waste our time on insignificant series and movies that are provided to us by endless streaming services in order to feel ready for another day of selling our time. This vicious circle is unsustainable.”
― Kristine H. Harper, Anti-trend, Resilient Design and the Art of Sustainable Living

“Let’s not fall into the trap of conventions and habits and convince ourselves that the way we are consuming now is next to impossible to alter because of regulated options, economic limitations, cultural norms, accessibility, or whichever excuse we come up with. Let’s remember that just as it is momentarily the norm to mindlessly shop and consume, it could easily become the new norm not to; to radically reduce one’s consumption and to focus on the usage and aesthetic nourishment of the objects one owns and invests in. Something being the norm doesn’t mean that it is carved in stone. Norms are changeable. Not easily changeable, but nevertheless changeable. Cherishing, mending, and repairing one’s belongings could become the new normal.”
― Kristine H. Harper, Anti-trend, Resilient Design and the Art of Sustainable Living

“I am not on a mission that involves preaching doomsday. Yes, there are definitely a lot of pollution-based problems in the world. And, yes, we most certainly need to change our consumption and production ways radically in order to stop ongoing climate change, inequality, and mindless consumption. But I think that one of the many reasons this “turning things around” is so hard is that the way we are being told to change things is lecture-based and fear driven.”
― Kristine H. Harper, Anti-trend, Resilient Design and the Art of Sustainable Living

“Sustainable, simple living should be synonymous with resilience. There is nothing healthy, balanced, or resilient about the occasional “sugar-rush” in the shape of consumer-ventures or luxury holidays—which are needed in order to survive one’s stressful, busy daily life. I would even go as far as to rename the sustainable way of life—known as slow living or simple living—resilient living. The majority of the connotations currently linked to simple living are too lifeless and too monotonous to be inspiring and to contain longevity.”
― Kristine H. Harper, Anti-trend, Resilient Design and the Art of Sustainable Living

“Political conmanship has no place in Umoja, Nairobi, Kenya, or anywhere in the world. Let's avoid politicians and vote for leaders who will work hard and smart to ensure progress and sustainability.”
― DON SANTO

“Find a cause outside yourself, and all will be sustainable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Where there is simplicity, there is sustainability.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Sustainability is the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
― Brundtland Commission

“Secure Nature for Sustainable Future”
― - Chintha Sai Bhargav Reddy

“Better Business can be described as a company that has a long-term perspective and is guided and inspired by a higher purpose that helps the organization create, deliver, and capture value to stakeholders while minimizing ecological and social costs, engaging its business ecosystem, and reducing its footprint.”
― Elisabet Lagerstedt, Better Business Better Future

“The future of farming isn't just about growing food—it's about growing a mindset that nurtures the future, one harvest at a time.”
― Mike Smart