vizwall_screensaver/quotes.json

[
  {
    "quote": "Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place.",
    "author": "I.M. Pei"
  },
  {
    "quote": "We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.",
    "author": "Anne Marie Bonneau"
  },
  {
    "quote": "By being sweet to the pedestrian and the cyclist you hit five birds with one stone – you get a lively, attractive, safe, sustainable city that’s good for health.",
    "author": "Jan Gehl"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.",
    "author": "Gaylord Nelson"
  },
  {
    "quote": "When we destroy something created by man, we call it vandalism. When we destroy something created by nature, we call it progress.",
    "author": "Ed Begley Jr."
  },
  {
    "quote": "You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.",
    "author": "Jane Goodall"
  },
  {
    "quote": "As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.",
    "author": "Norman Foster"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Every day I wake up in Copenhagen I know the city will be a little bit better than yesterday.",
    "author": "Jan Gehl"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The architect’s role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.",
    "author": "Oscar Niemeyer"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backwards.",
    "author": "Yvon Chouinard"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Consume less; share better.",
    "author": "Hervé Kempf"
  },
  {
    "quote": "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.",
    "author": "Thomas Fuller"
  },
  {
    "quote": "First life, then spaces, then buildings – the other way around never works.",
    "author": "Jan Gehl"
  },
  {
    "quote": "It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty.",
    "author": "David Attenborough"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.",
    "author": "Le Corbusier"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The Sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.",
    "author": "Louis Kahn"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.",
    "author": "Leonardo da Vinci"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Our planet’s alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!",
    "author": "Leonardo DiCaprio"
  },
  {
    "quote": "An endless number of green buildings don’t make a sustainable city.",
    "author": "Jan Gehl"
  },
  {
    "quote": "We are all crew on spaceship Earth.",
    "author": "Marshall McLuhan"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The best way to predict the future is to design it.",
    "author": "Buckminster Fuller"
  },
  {
    "quote": "A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.",
    "author": "Patrick Geddes"
  },
  {
    "quote": "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.",
    "author": "Louis Kahn"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.",
    "author": "Frank Lloyd Wright"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good.",
    "author": "Jochen Zeitz"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all.",
    "author": "Ban Ki-moon"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.",
    "author": "Robert Swan"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The future depends on what you do today.",
    "author": "Mahatma Gandhi"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.",
    "author": "John Portman"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Urbanization is not an evil, but it becomes a problem when it is unplanned.",
    "author": "Sheikh Hasina"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.",
    "author": "Frank Gehry"
  },
  {
    "quote": "We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.",
    "author": "Winston Churchill"
  },
  {
    "quote": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.",
    "author": "Albert Einstein"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Less is more.",
    "author": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.",
    "author": "Gary Snyder"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.",
    "author": "Lady Bird Johnson"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces.",
    "author": "Paul Hawken"
  },
  {
    "quote": "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.",
    "author": "Native American Proverb"
  },
  {
    "quote": "When we build, let us think that we build forever.",
    "author": "John Ruskin"
  },
  {
    "quote": "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.",
    "author": "Greek Proverb"
  },
  {
    "quote": "In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.",
    "author": "John Sawhill"
  },
  {
    "quote": "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?",
    "author": "Henry David Thoreau"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Sustainability is about ecology, economy, and equity.",
    "author": "Ralph Bicknese"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The Earth is what we all have in common.",
    "author": "Wendell Berry"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.",
    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because they are created by everybody.",
    "author": "Jane Jacobs"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.",
    "author": "Stephen Gardiner"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.",
    "author": "Barry Commoner"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Our future is at stake, and we have no option but to act decisively on climate change.",
    "author": "Angela Merkel"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The future will either be green or not at all.",
    "author": "Bob Brown"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.",
    "author": "Eleanor Roosevelt"
  },
  {
    "quote": "To waste, to destroy our natural resources will result in undermining in the days of our children.",
    "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
  }
]