269 Quotes About Sustainability

...for design to truly address issues of sustainability necessitates a change in how we define innovation, and move beyond what we can do to what we should do.

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

When we look at nature, we see ourselves.

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

Earth is not the one that needs saving; We are. Sustainability is not about saving Earth; it's about saving our species on Earth.

Writer Lorraine Hansberry has said, 'There is always some- thing left to love.'Similarly, there is always something left for which we can feel gratitude—something to love about our days, despite our occasional brushes with doubt or despair.

Images of both distance and closeness, smallness and vastness, exist in 'North on the Illahee Ferry.' Every life is sustained by both.

What is retained within something, even when it is removed from its ordinary setting or becomes broken?