Arthur Erickson Quotes

Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

If a man walks 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 days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise their environmental obligations.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.

I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.

We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.

While we advertise tourism, we should also educate our people in keeping a close vigil on what is happening as the side effect of tourism.

If you develop in the old fashioned way there are enormous costs (to the environment)….but we have to demonstrate it, not just tell people.

For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technology would require four more planet earths.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

The need to incorporate longer term time scales into our societal choices is very real—and right in the lap of our generation.

Since the mid-1970s, people have been consuming more resources than the planet’s natural capital can replenish.