SUSTAINABILITY FAMOUS QUOTES

“Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship, and strengthen governance.” – Ban Ki-moon

“The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” – Native American Proverb

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” – Robert Swan

“There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw something away, it must go somewhere.” – Annie Leonard

“The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.” – Dalai Lama

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

“The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.” – Lady Bird Johnson

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

“Every single person has an impact on the planet every single day, and we have a choice as to what kind of difference we’re going to make.” – Jane Goodall

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama

“The earth is what we all have in common.” – Wendell Berry

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder

“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” – Henry David Thoreau

“Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” – John Muir FRIEND FATHER PASSED AWAY QUOTES

“The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the environment, we cannot sustain ourselves.” – Wangari Maathai

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.” – Kenyan proverb

“The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth.” – Chief Seattle

“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” – Margaret Mead

“The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.” – John Paul II

“To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” – Robert Swan

“The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.” – Lady Bird Johnson

“We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.” – Barbara Ward

“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.” – Baba Dioum

“An environmentalist is someone who knows that the Earth is not only a planet but also our home and works to protect it.” – Bruce N. Anderson

“The earth is what we all have in common, and it is everyone’s responsibility to protect it.” – Unknown