Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Sara Parkin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish activist Sara Parkin.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Sara Parkin

Sara Parkin is a Scottish nurse and political activist. She started her working life as a nurse in Edinburgh but rose to prominence as a green political activist during and after the 1989 European Parliament election, in which the UK Green Party gained 15% of the votes but no seats. She resigned from the party in 1992, at odds with the party's anti-leadership stance, and went on to found the Forum for the Future with Jonathon Porritt and Paul Ekins. Her current campaigning focus is sustainability literacy as an essential outcome of formal education, especially in universities and colleges. She lives in Hackney, East London.

Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems
Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'
What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.' — © Sara Parkin
What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'
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