Top 25 Sustainability Quotes of 30 - Page 2

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Derrick Jensen

Soul, Culture, Sustainability

Derrick Jensen (2006). “Endgame”, p.190, Seven Stories Press

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

Patrick Dixon

Keys, Understanding, Sustainability

"Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.

The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'

Mathis Wackernagel

Two, Definitions, Sustainability

If you go from the USA - which, relative to the rest of the world, is in pretty good shape in terms of biodiversity and sustainability - to the tropics, everything gets worse. You have Indonesia, which is destroying its own forest. In West Africa there's no control whatsoever. It's a global situation. For that reason it ties in clearly with the needs and relationships of low-income countries.

E. O. Wilson

Country, World, Sustainability

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.

Chip Pitts

Moral, Human Rights, Sustainability

"Corporate Social Responsibility: Wisdom or Window Dressing?". Interview with William Fisher, truthout.org. April 7, 2010.