Sustainable Development Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it

  Laozi

  Future, Vision, Trying

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• The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem of when the drink is going to run out is, however, going to have to be faced one day. The planet over which they are floating is no longer the planet it was when they first started floating over it. It is in bad shape

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Future, Party

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• If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

  Jacques Barzun

  Future, Civilization, Vision

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

  Thabo Mbeki

  Future, Survival, Vision

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future'

  William J. Clinton

  Future, People, Giving

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• We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Future, Understanding, Vision

  Speech in Richmond, Virginia, September 20, 1952.

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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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• There can be no sustainable development without sustainable energy development

  Margot Wallstrom

  Future, Vision, Energy

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• Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Challenges, Soil, Pillars

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• We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Future, People, Vision

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• The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

  Prince Charles

  Moving, Future, Vision

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• Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Innovation, Development, Catalyst

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• Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems

  Sara Parkin

  Future, Support Systems, People

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• In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Views, Issues, Doubt

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• A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Witty, Thinking, Political

  "A Politician’s Christmas Carol" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.

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• The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only come if there's a change in our societies and our economics and in our politics. I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer. Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy, inhabitable by all species

  David Attenborough

  Real, Future, Responsibility

  "State of the Planet". Documentary, www.imdb.com. (2000 - ).

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• Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.

  Wangari Maathai

  Thinking, Ideas, Support Systems

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease

  Margaret Thatcher

  Future, Vision, Earth

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• Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

  Margaret Beckett

  Future, Vision, Way

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• What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation

  Ed Mayo

  Meaningful, Future, Vision

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• The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

  Paul Hawken

  Future, Vision, Trying

  "Experts: Big Hurricanes in Future", www.wired.com. October 2, 2005.

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• So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel.

  James Lovelock

  Development, Drivel, Meaningless

  "James Lovelock on shale gas and the problem with 'greens'". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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