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Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.


Maurice Strong


#because #continue #difference #make #make a difference

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.


Maurice Strong


#called #ecological #habits #i #inertia

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.


Maurice Strong


#board #case #china #countries #decided

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.


Maurice Strong


#exacerbate #farm #fish #fishing #fleets

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.


Maurice Strong


#amongst #businesses #concept #debated #development

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.


Maurice Strong


#any #development #few #i #india

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.


Jim Cooper


#arguably #clearly #david #first #fiscal

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.


Georges Cuvier


#cannot #covered #denied #did #form

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.


Criss Jami


#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.


Andy Couturier


#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #japan