“Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
“21st Century choice: Look after our planet, and it will look after us, or don’t and face the consequences”
– Phil Harding
“There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.”
– Paul McCartney
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
– Howard Zinn
“Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.”
– Carl Sagan
“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.”
– Jean-Paul Richter
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
– Marshall McLuhan
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”
– Ross Perot
“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”
– Stewart Udall
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
