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Quotes About Sustainability

John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls.
~ David Wong
furnaces for dyers and brewers, which when known will be used without
~ David Wootton
Put your food dollars toward nutrients, not calories.
~ David Zinczenko
The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the not so very long run.
~ Dean Acheson
We will eventually run out of natural resources but we have an unlimited supply of stupidity. We need to invent power grids that are fueled by bullshit.
~ Dean Cavanagh
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
~ Dean Kamen
Sustainable- Nutritious Eating/Living has a Higher Purpose.
~ Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig
I do not want to grow for the sake of growth. Never will I be blinded by greed.
~ Muhammed Muazu Mukaddas
Sustainable life is Victory.
~ Elizabeth Salalmanca-Brosig
Sustainable Life = Victory
~ Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]
~ Cormac McCarthy
Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
~ Paul Watson
As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.
~ Louis Bromfield
Can collective intelligence save the planet? It's the only hope we have.
~ Patrick Joseph McGovern
An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.
~ Charles Handy
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.
~ Thomas Berry
When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.
~ Sharon Gannon
The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live
~ Julius Nyerere
sin embargo la consigna era ahora ir con cuidado, no duraría mucho, poco más que la convalecencia y las semanas precisas para que nos repusiéramos todos del susto y nos confiáramos, ningún estado de alarma es sostenible.
~ Javier Marías
If you love paper, you can print the e-book and have lots of paper.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
The plan was to create a agrarian buffer between the rapidly enveloping towers of New York and Brooklyn.
~ Jay Lake
I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.
~ Jean Dujardin
Una sociedad crece cuando los ancianos plantan árboles bajo cuya sombra saben que nunca se sentarán
~ Jean Giono
I never knew how much we consumed. It seems as if we are all appetite, as if a human being is simply a bundle of needs to drain the world. It's no wonder there are wars, no wonder the earth and water and air are polluted. It's no wonder the economy collapsed, if Eva and I use so much merely to stay alive.
~ Jean Hegland