Quotes

If you have come to help me...

If you have come to help me you can go home again. But if you see my struggle as part of your own survival then perhaps we can find a way to work together.
— Attributed to an "unnamed aborigine woman"
The Manila Declaration on People’s Participation and Sustainable Development, June 1989

Climate change economics is the next industrial revolution

Climate change economics is the next industrial revolution. The countries who invest now in this new growth market will gain the advantage of a first mover. Those who don't risk being left behind.
— Nicholas Stern

We do not need magic to change the world

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
— J. K. Rowling

lower our voices...follow the guidance

The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress and to be
— Wendell Berry
The Art of the Commonplace

irreplaceable capital

The illusion is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which it has been erected.
— E.F. Schumacher
Small is Beautiful

Men occasionally stumble over the truth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
— Sir Winston Churchill

What is designed by humans

What is designed by humans can be changed by humans.
— John F. Kennedy

take responsibility for our own existence

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. Make it now.
— Bill Mollison

It's not enough that we do our best

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
— Winston Churchill

one thousandth of one percent

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
— Albert Einstein
Flying in over the city, we are presented with a vast landscape of hard, dead surfaces. Green roofing and other living technologies offer the potential for reclaiming the footprints taken from the Earth as buildings are erected, returning the green.
— Erik Van Lennep

sustainability strategies & design

Sustainability Partnerships with Nature
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