Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Sustainability Quotes
Climate ChangeLong-Term ThinkingScientific ConsensusSustainabilityTough Choices The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
Environmental ChallengesEnvironmental ConservationNature TransformationReforestationSustainability Forest restoration is a challenging and complex undertaking of raising young trees, transplanting them, and then cultivating them year in, year out in the face of harsh challenges of nature; it is a gigantic nature transformation project to turn all the mountains of the country into 'treasure mountains,' into 'gold mountains.'
Conservation ChallengesEcologyEnvironmental ImpactIndustrializationSustainability The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
EconomicsFuture TechnologiesInnovationNuclear EnergySustainability The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.
EnergyInnovationNatureSustainability The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.
Clean EnergyCollaborationInnovationProgressSustainability I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.
EnergyPlanningResearchSafetySustainability In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.
ActionCarbon EmissionsClimate ChangeSustainability Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
EqualityGenerosityHungerJusticeSustainability The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
DevelopmentEnergyInnovationProgressSustainability The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
Climate ChangeEcologyFuture WellbeingInactionSustainability Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.
ChangeInnovationOpportunityRevolutionSustainability Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.
CreativityRewardSuccessSustainability Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
JusticePeaceSafetySecuritySustainability We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
IdentityNationalismPerceptionSustainability Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models - we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.
AwarenessBeekeepingCarbon FootprintEnvironmental ResponsibilitySustainability I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.
AmbitionSpace ExplorationSustainabilityTechnological ProgressVision SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
Aviation ImpactEnvironmental ResponsibilityPersonal ChallengeSelf-awarenessSustainability I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.
Growth PotentialInnovationRenewable EnergySustainabilityTransformation Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
EnergyGlobal DevelopmentNuclear PowerSustainability We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
AgricultureClimate ChangeFood SecuritySustainability People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
MinimalismReducing Ecological ImpactSustainability I personally have stopped flying. I have stopped eating meat and dairy.
EqualityHumilityPhilanthropySustainabilityWealth I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
IndustrializationLong-Term EffectsModern ConvenienceProcessed FoodsSustainability We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
IntegrationRoutineSimplicitySustainability Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.
Resource ManagementSustainability The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Consequences of ActionEnvironmental DestructionNational SurvivalRecognition of ImpactSustainability The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
AgricultureChemistryEnvironmentInnovationSustainability The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.
EnergyEnvironmental ImpactInnovationSustainabilityTechnology It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.