Sustainable Development Quotes

• Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

  Kofi Annan

  Future, Reality, Ideas

  "Annan pleads with west as environment is pushed up UN agenda". www.theguardian.com.

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• Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Exercise, Justice, Growth

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Future, Needs, Generations

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• There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

  Paul McCartney

  Rain, Future, Land

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• Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be

  Gary Lawrence

  Future, Agriculture, Choices

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• Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

  Phil Harding

  Future, Vision, Environmental

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• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ocean, Future

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Change, Future, Animal

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Teaching, Democracies Have

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Jun 03, 2016

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• No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Future, Vision, Matter

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• Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be

  Niall FitzGerald

  Future, Agriculture, Vision

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  Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Courage, Time

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• Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment

  David Attenborough

  Survival, Population, Benefits

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children

  Michael Meacher

  Children, Future, Our World

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life

  Richard Rogers

  Future, Long, Vision

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• The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Block, Issues, Keys

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• Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Time, Future, Kids

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  Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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• Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin

  Ban Ki-moon

  Inspiring, Two Sides, Climate

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• Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

  Chief Seattle

  Land, Agriculture, Earth

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• 21st Century choice: Look after our planet and it will look after us, or don't and face the consequences

  Phil Harding

  Choices, Looks, Faces

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