Thomas Friedman Quotes

I believe the green movement is gaining momentum because people are becoming more educated about the real importance of living green.

I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

If there is a future, it will be Green.

We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.

With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the biggest difference is to change mainstream behavior.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

It's time for all of us to kind of think about the green initiative as a whole. Monetizing it is very important. It's on us to continue to put the message out.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

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

Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.