Eco Quotes

• The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Men, Serenity

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• Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

  David Foreman

  Cancer, Brain, Environmental

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• Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient."

  William McDonough

  Jobs, Business, Practice

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.76, Macmillan

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• To be proactive is to educate yourself and get the word out via social media, or through one of the many animal-welfare organizations around the world, and by signing petitions, starting your own campaigns, rescuing and fostering animals, organizing cleanups, recycling, volunteering at your local animal shelter, going to eco-tourist destinations or photo safaris. This will help get the word out to the masses, and hopefully, this will bring more awareness and more compassion to animal welfare.

  Katie Cleary

  Animal, Compassion, Media

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• My anarchism is frankly anarcho-communalism, and it's eco-anarchism as well. And it's not oriented toward the proletariat.

  Murray Bookchin

  Proletariat, Anarchism, Wells

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• A functioning eco-system is a human need.

  Noam Chomsky

  Needs, Humans, Human Needs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes living in isolation from the rest of the world and prone to fanatical irrational indestructible beliefs — not least the notion that you can flush a 950-page book down one of Al Gore's eco-crazed federally mandated low-flush toilets, a claim no editorial bigfoot thought to test for himself in Newsweek's executive washroom.

  Mark Steyn

  Book, Self, Media

  "Firing Up the Crowd: From Newsweek to the Nuts, in One Fast Ball". www.jewishworldreview.com. May 23, 2005.

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• Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don't use animal skins or fur of any kind.

  Stella McCartney

  Beautiful, Animal, Skins

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• Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

  Van Jones

  Fighting, Leader, Environmental

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• The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

  William McDonough

  Tree, Climate, Use

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• Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Climate

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents.

  Tana Ramsay

  Children, Teaching, Parent

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• People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Motivational, People, Focus

  "A Planetary Problem". Interview with Amy Davidson, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2005.

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• Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
  The false refinements that would keep her out.

  Horace

  Environment, Force, Refinement

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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• Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

  Van Jones

  Successful, Long, Principles

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• A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of demands. The momentum will build, through these early efforts, for more comprehensive solutions.

  Van Jones

  Effort, Friendly, Would Be

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• Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.

  Al Gore

  Choices, Friendly, Rewards

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Our life on earth cannot sustain without healthy oceans - and because of that, the beings who inhabit and allow that eco system to work need our help. Let's start with our wonderment, and go from there. Allow that, and it becomes easy.

  Maggie Q

  Ocean, Healthy, Needs

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• Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

  William McDonough

  Business, Mean, Effectiveness

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.76, Macmillan

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• The government must nurture an eco-system where the economy is primed for growth; and growth promotes all-rounddevelopment. Where development is employment-generating ; and employment is enabled by skills. Where skills are synced with production; and production is benchmarked to quality. Where quality meets global standards; and meeting global standards drives prosperity. Most importantly, this prosperity is for the welfare of all. That is my concept ofeconomic good governance and all round development.

  Narendra Modi

  Skills, Government, Growth

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• Our expertise is solar energy and we don't want to focus on other forms and we never push for solar form everywhere like say in upper hill areas where eco-hydro or biogas is more viable.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Focus, Energy, Want

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• I have been called an eco-designer simply because I use wood. But I am not an eco-designer, nor does the use of wood make me one. I am a designer who cares about the effect of what I do, and about making good things for people to keep and cherish - that, surely, is simply the basic condition for 'good design'?

  David Trubridge

  People, Design, Who Cares

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• Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Library, Owners

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• Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.

  Otto Scharmer

  Moving, Ego, Our Society

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• Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.

  Toby Hemenway

  Agriculture, People, Process

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