Quotes About Consumption

The Park's nice,' his father conceded, 'but the rest of the country is just people in huge cars wondering what to eat next.

most people found it hard to know what to do other than eat and drink around the clock in a conscientious drive to fill as many recycling bags as possible.

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Waste is a tax on the whole people.

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.

We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free.

La nostra società, sempre più grande e bella, a questo punto è come un ipocondriaco, talmente ossessionato dalla sua salute finanziaria da aver perso la capacità di rimanere sano. Il mondo è così incessantemente avido di vasche da bagno che ha perduto l'equilibrio necessario per costruirle e persino per chiudere i rubinetti.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

el vino es como un llanto desolado que humedece mi juventud frente a tus besos que otra deglute

hours hours and hours snap up our pleasures

are among the winners in this new "information age". Therefore, it is only reasonable to expect the rate of producing and consuming the information to grow. We can define information as "that which resolves uncertainty". We can further say that the decision-making is the progressive resolution of uncertainty, and is a key to a purposeful behavior

Cette fleur parfaite, j'ai presque envie de la manger, de l'avaler pour remplacer la beauté que j'ai perdue.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Everything breaks down to its final mortal parts. Time swallows the world.

I read like the flame reads the wood.

I was consuming the most food when I came to Wasps. I was eating six meals a day - 250-300g of protein, 300g of carbs, 250g of veg, six times every day. It was extensive, horrific. And tedious.

Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

My obsession is plastic packaging. It makes me sick, all the waste. Everything about it disappoints me.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.