[ { "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" } ]