Quotes About Environment

Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.

I'd love to take up organic vegetable gardening, do anything that involves learning.

There's nothing better than home-grown, chemical-free fruits and vegetables.

The thing about Mongolia is that it's incredibly difficult to grow vegetables there, so mostly we ate muttony stews.

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.

Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.

If our grazing land was allowed to revert to natural ecosystems, and the land currently used to grow feed for livestock was used for grains, beans, fruit, nuts and vegetables for humans, this switch would allow the UK to absorb an astonishing quantity of carbon.

If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that.

Being a vegetarian really saves lives.

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.

I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.

When I stopped eating meat, I noticed that it was easier for me to focus, and I was really proud of myself for being green also... I had a plethora of reasons for going vegetarian.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

We're a 100-percent-organic house. My daughter is a vegetarian and practically vegan. That's her choice. That's how she eats. We're really conscious about what we buy.

I am an eco-friendly person and a vegetarian.

I am a vegetarian.

I had to go vegan. First vegetarian, then I had to go vegan. And I do miss the cheese, I have to - I must confess.

I have a very strict lifestyle. It's a vegetarian household and we grow our own produce.

At a time when you do not know what chemicals are being fed into plants, there's no way you would know how toxic animals are. So, I'd stick to vegetarian fare.

I'm not a pescatarian, I'm not a vegetarian, but I'm also a conscious person. And I know the impact of the way that we fix meat nowadays is not good. It's killing us, it's killing the planet.

Believe me, I became a vegetarian from being a teenager in the meatpacking district.