Abstract
This study - essay - shows sustainable development from the historical point of view, how development of selected cases of pre-sustainable development ideas encouraged the contemporary concept of sustainable development. The purpose of this brief historical excursion is to show the lack of time in keeping sustainable development as a traditional system of principal questions: what and how to develop and sustain, connected with practical implementation of sustainability and (with the questions) why and when to sustain and develop, as well as with moral appeals and ideas.