Sustainability Quotes

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels. (Shari Arison)
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change. View quote
Cameron Sinclair
Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability–whether they are easily measured or not. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge. View quote
Bjarke Ingels
If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia. View quote
Yehuda Berg
It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival. View quote
Cameron Sinclair
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases. View quote
Burton Richter
I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and also reaching out to rural and regional Australia in order to assist in the sustainability crisis and the food security crisis. View quote
Christine Milne
Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute. View quote
Carl Safina
I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability. View quote
Edward Burtynsky
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros. (Jaime Lerner)
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. View quote
Jamais Cascio
Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us? View quote
Jamais Cascio
In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception. View quote
Justin Sane
Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food. View quote
Rene Redzepi
We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth. View quote
Stuart Rose
Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world. View quote
Yoshihiko Noda
Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course. View quote
Ban Ki-moon
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. View quote
Paul Hawken
Unfortunately a large number of people in many countries are strongly opposed to green technology, for reasons having little to do with the real dangers. It is important to treat the opponents with respect, to pay attention to their fears, to go gently into the new world of green technology so that neither human dignity nor religious conviction is violated. If we can go gently, we have a good chance of achieving within a hundred years the goals of ecological sustainability and social justice that green technology brings within our reach. View quote
Freeman Dyson
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament. (Rem Koolhaas)
As someone who has always aspired to build a company committed to its people and to the world, I admire her determination to achieve sustainability at an established company like Pepsi Co. And I believe that all socially responsible companies could learn from Indra Nooyi's style of leadership. View quote
Indra Nooyi
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability. View quote
Bertrand Piccard
This forum of non-governmental organizations represents the belief in the ability of intelligent human beings to resolve conflicting interests through exchange and dialogue. It also represents the conviction that governments alone cannot resolve all the problems of their countries. The watchfulness and active cooperation of organizations outside the spheres of officialdom are necessary to ensure the four essential components of the human development paradigm as identified by the UNDP: productivity, equity, sustainability and empowerment. The last is particularly relevant: it requires that "development must be BY people, not only FOR them. People must participate fully in the decisions and processes that shape their lives." In other words people must be allowed to play a significant role in the governance of their country. And "people" include women who make up at least half of the world's population. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi