Brooks Stevens
Industrial designer
"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence."
Sustainability quotes
Sustainability
30 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
"Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
"The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you."
Alan Cohen
Author
"If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't."
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"The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science."
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