269 Quotes About Sustainability

  • Author Madeleine Ryan
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    . . . the fact that people are starving and dying of thirst all around the world has nothing to do with whether or not I eat all of my mashed potato, and everything to do with the fact that billions of us are refusing to build infrastructure that can distribute the earth's resources lovingly and mindfully.

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  • Author Dr. Helena Lass
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    Proactive interventions to increase the quality of life as well as prevention in psychiatry can be furthered through intrapersonal education. This new kind of inner education will emphasise a conscious focus on the individual as a starting point for transformation towards sustainable lifestyles and society. To change one’s internal functioning is the most positive step one can take to contribute towards increase for personal and world harmony.

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  • Author Timothy Morton
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    The idea that there are multiple worlds because there are multiple lifeforms and that no one world or scale is the "right" one means that efficiency is only efficient from a particular standpoint. For example, the idea of sustainability implies that the system we now have is worth sustaining.

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