Quotes About Environment

When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains was smoking with rubbish dumps. While exploring the dumps, I made friends with people living and working there and saw how they survived through recycling the rubbish.

Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

My mother always wanted me to be in the best environment that I could be in. She wanted me to go to the best schools. Every now and again she'd save up enough for us to get a nice apartment in downtown Chicago, but we were never able to sustain it.

The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.

The Saft America plant, a giant 235,000-square-foot mass of concrete, is a modern marvel: its roof covered in row upon row of solar panels, embodying the renewable future that the batteries manufactured within are meant to sustain.

Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.

Nature nurtures our souls and lifts our spirits. But it also sustains us and our economy - and it is for this reason that we take it for granted at our peril.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

I have refused to buy a car for the reasons of sustainability.

I think there is a general view that sustainability is really important. I do think it is a top priority. I don't know that it's the top priority.

Your money is power, so be aware of the products you're buying and the companies you're supporting to make sure you're helping the companies that are leading the way in sustainability.

All my projects are about sustainability, bioremediation, making things in a cleaner fashion.

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

Sustainability is a part of our 'rise' philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.