Porritt The World Quotes & Sayings

New Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese. In a short period of time the Republicans have come quite a long way. The last Republican president wasn't even fluent in English. — David Letterman

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out. — L. Ron Hubbard

Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world. — Jonathon Porritt

He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told me that time spent with him would ruin me for all other men. When he said it, I thought it was an outrageous threat. I no longer though it outrageous. — Janet Evanovich

The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today — Jonathon Porritt

Soldiers planted like vegetables waiting for the day of harvest. ... everything is more intense at night, perfectly beautiful, and when the wind shifts and the reek of rotting meat vanishes for a few blessed minutes you can smell the sweet scent of the countryside. — Louis De Bernieres

A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems for societies the world over. No nation is immune. The scientific evidence tells us all we need to know: carry on with business-as-usual growth-at-all-costs, and we're stuffed — Jonathon Porritt

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it. — Jane Smiley

The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes. — Jonathon Porritt

The fragrance of rain mixes with the smell of old books. It is heavenly - that combination of threat and safety. — Trudy Wallis

ORTHODOX PARADOX
Religion, unlike ethnicity, is inculcated
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

Life is a journey- not only to see the world- to find yourself, your place in the world, and your happiness. — Debasish Mridha

The core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed — Jonathon Porritt

Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost. — Crystal Woodman Miller

We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough? — Jonathon Porritt

The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying."
I kiss the man I lie to. He kisses me with truth. I am set free — Tarryn Fisher

I don't need to see you to know that you're beautiful. — Jeri Smith-Ready

We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into being after the 2nd World War, and they're now failing us ever more catastropically. Wild Law shows just how radical we now need to be in creating new institutions that are genuinely 'fit for purpose' in the 21st Century. — Jonathon Porritt

[Eric] 'So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself?'

[Sookie] 'Yes,' I said, almost squeaking in my anxiety. In for a penny, in for a pound. 'And... do you think you could pretend to be gay? — Charlaine Harris

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