top of page
Quote_1.png
Maurice Strong

"Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment."

Standard 
 Customized
"Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment."

More 

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"In a natural environment, nature controls the breeding cycles. In the man-made environment, abnormal environmental conditions control the unnatural breeding cycles."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"The blue of daylightfades and chills as the sun sinksbeneath clouds of fire."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Maurice Strong
"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."

Development

Quote_1.png
Maurice Strong
"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."

Population

Quote_1.png
Maurice Strong
"We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance."

Chance

Quote_1.png
Maurice Strong
"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."

Money

Quote_1.png
Maurice Strong
"I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations."

Environment

Quote_1.png
Maurice Strong
"Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles."

Car

Quote_1.png
Maurice Strong
"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."

Development

Quote_1.png
Maurice Strong
"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."

Environment

Quote_1.png
Maurice Strong
"Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment."

Environment

Quote_1.png
Maurice Strong
"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."

Earth

bottom of page