Quotes about Sustainability

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

One should love animals. They are so tasty.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.

Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.