33 Eco-Friendly Sustainability Quotes to Live By

Our environment is all we have. If we don’t take care of it who will?

These sustainability quotes are some of the many ways that we can learn and understand the importance of sustainable development. Human interaction with the environment is something that has brought so many adverse effects in some areas while positive ones in other areas.

Therefore, as we try to hit our sustainability goals, it is also important to also think of the impact of such developments on what surrounds us.

Sustainability Quotes to Live By

1. There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away it must go somewhere.

2. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

3. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

4. Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good.

5. Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.

6. The best way to predict the future is to create it.

7. Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Powerful Quotes on Sustainable Development

8. If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it…one step at a time.

9. Buy less, choose well, make it last.

10. We only get a handful of decades on earth, I’d rather spend that time doing good than perpetuating bad.

11. The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.

12. We can never have enough of Nature.

13. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.

14. Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.

15. How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.  – Anne Frank

16. Waste isn’t waste until we waste it

Eco-Friendly Sustainability Quotes

17. Think globally, act locally

18. Consume less create more

19. The future will either be green or not at all.

20. There is no planet b

21. Buy less, choose well, make it last.

22. You have two homes, Earth and your body. Take care of them.

23. The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least try not to defy them.

24. Sustainability is about ecology, economy, and equity.

25. Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good.

Sustainable Fashion Quotes

26. Fast fashion is not free. Someone somewhere is paying.

27. “As consumers, we have so much power to change the world by just being careful in what we buy” -Emma Watson.

28. Clothes are not going to change the world, the women who wear them will.

29. Cheap fashion is really far from that. It may be cheap in terms of the financial cost, but very expensive when it comes to the environment and the cost of human life.

30. Fashion can be a universal player in protecting the planet.

31. There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness

32. When you wear vintage, you never have to worry about showing up in the same dress as someone else.

33. Become an active citizen through your wardrobe.