Sunita Narain

"What we need today as a nation is a new paradigm of growth—whenever and however it happens."

"This doesn’t mean we have to stop developing. Just we have to do it differently."

"We cannot afford to do what China and America did: have decades of 8 percent GDP growth, then do a cleanup act later."

"Now you don’t; everyone knows what it is. It’s right there for you to see."

"No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you."

"It didn’t much matter how well we understood the issue if we weren’t to take that both were common property resources to share and manage globally."