269 Quotes About Sustainability

We will spend billions making inhospitable distant planets habitable. And yet we spend trillions destroying the abundant ingredients for life on our home planet.

As the 'circular' approach to sustainability begins to gather ground, we humans are finding ourselves within the circle, not without.

There is not a single ecosystem in the Universe that is "sustainable". The planets are not "sustainable". Our solar system is sustained chaos. The best Humanity can do is learn to ride the waves of uncertainty.

We should have high importance and have a sense of urgency to do our part in being excellent stewards of our environment.

Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.

Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

No anti-slavery crusader aimed for a partial solution or settled on a regimen of interim targets. The fight to end slavery was a fight to end 100 percent of slavery for all time. In just that way, we can't settle for partial measures if we are going to win the war for our world. We need to fight for 100 percent sustainability, now.

The vision of the ideal life that we've been taught in the West, which is gaining ever more purchase in China and India and elsewhere, feeds the system we need to undo. Go to school in order to get a degree in order to get a job in order to earn money so you can try to buy happiness because your life sucks, then retire and die: this is not meaningful living.