Environmental Focus Quotes

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused on the health of the planet and the poor than on material acquisitions and military might. While it is a fundamentally new endeavor, with many uncertainties, it is far less risky than continuing with business as usual.

I think history shows that countries have to have some kind of a threshold level of economic success before they begin to have the means and the will to focus on the environment.

Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to live.

That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions

What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears.