Sustainability Quotes

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.

~ Andy Couturier

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

~ Andy Couturier

I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.

~ Andy Couturier

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

~ Andy Couturier

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?

~ Andy Couturier

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

~ Andy Couturier

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.

~ Andy Couturier

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

~ Andy Couturier

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

~ Ha-Joon Chang

If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order?We invest something of ourselves in our material world, which in turn reflects who we are. In the era of disposability that plastic has helped us foster, we have increasingly invested ourselves in objects that have no real meaning in our lives. We think of disposable lighters as conveniences -- which they indisputably are; ask any smoker or backyard-barbecue chef -- and yet we don't think much about the tradeoffs that that convenience entails.

~ Susan Freinkel

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

~ Robert Lynd

The idea of unlimited growth... needs to be seriously questioned on at least two counts: the availability of basic resources and... the capacity of the environment to cope with the degree of interference implied. - E.F. Schumacher

~ Wayne Ellwood

Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations.

~ Sylvia Dolson

You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

~ Donella H. Meadows

Banks should actively encourage companies that are doing a good job on environmental and social fronts. Banking for community development is the banking of future.

~ Saurabh Gupta Earth5R

The New Economy brings the need to tap people’s curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society.

~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Taking measures to ensure stability could assure the long-term economic growth and welfare at a global level

~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Glorify Sustainable Organisations since they benefit all society

~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

~ Rem Koolhaas

Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.

~ Jochen Zeitz

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

~ Shari Arison

Sustainability goes across everything I do with Adidas and everything I do with my own house, so the Olympic kit is no exception. It is incredibly environmental in the way that it is manufactured. For example, there's no leather; it's free from PVC. There's lots of woven materials, which means a lot less waste.

~ Stella Mccartney

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

~ Thomas Perez

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger