Quotes by Future The future will be green, or not at all Jonathon Porritt futuregreenvision If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't Jonathon Porritt futurevisionmean Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity Jonathon Porritt futurevisionheart We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be Jonathon Porritt futurevisionpeople Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive attractions rob its followers of reason and good sense. It has created unsustainable inequalities and threatened to tear apart the very fabric of society. More powerful than any religion, it has reached into every corner of the globe. It is consumerism Jonathon Porritt futurepowerfulideas Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues Jonathon Porritt futureissuespeople ...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations Jonathon Porritt futuredrawingvision ...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may have to say about that! Jonathon Porritt futurevisionmean The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there was universal political indifference; now the bandwagon is abrim with politicians in catch-up mode. Once the media were semi-detached: now they're really getting stuck in. And they need to be! Many people are confused and disempowered, and the role of the media in getting then informed and engaged is critical Jonathon Porritt futureconfusedmedia They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum. Joni Mitchell futuretreemuseums Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. Jonathan Safran Foer futureregretlife She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when. Joni Mitchell premonitionfuture I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation. Joni Mitchell futurebutterflygun The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday. Jorge Luis Borges irrevocablefutureyesterday The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present. Joseph Henry futureeyelife They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies. Jonathan Swift futuredistancestars Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible? Joseph LeConte futureflyingself There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future. Joseph Plaskett futuredreamcountry Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus. .... No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms. ... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the future, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns. Joseph Weizenbaum futuremenscience Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man. Joseph Addison futuredreammen«2223242526272829303132»
