Quotes About Sustainability

First, you should take money and have plenty of money fueling your tank. But money becomes dangerous if you assume it's going to keep coming. Make sure you can get your burn rate to a sustainable level if you hit the brakes hard, within 90 days.

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

The more high tech we become the more nature we need.

Nature was still out there. There was less of it, to be sure, but it was there just the same.

A plant has been defined as a living thing that absorbs in microscopic amounts over its surface all that it needs for growth. Through

food chain - the vitally important system by which matter from soil and air passes through plants and animals and back to soil and air. It is this system upon which all life depends.

By the time a tree is full-grown, the underground root system is enormous; a mature oak tree, for example, has literally hundreds of miles of roots to tap the soil's resources in an endless quest for water. Each drop is collected by the root hairs and passed along, from one cell to the next, up the trunk and to the leaves, and in such a way that none of the precious moisture and minerals collected by the roots leaks back into the soil.

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

I don't want to stockpile tuna fish and bullets. That's not the world I want to live in.

You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long)

What obligation is more binding than to protect the cherished, to defend whoever or whatever cannot defend itself, and to nurture in turn that which has given nourishment? I'm reminded of words written by John Seed, an Australian environmentalist. When he began considering these questions, he believed, "I am protecting the rain forest." But as his thought evolved, he realized, "I am part of the rain forest protecting myself.

reuse is properly a process issue, and individual organizations need to decide whether they believe in its long-term benefits.

What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.

Something shines out, a truth so self-evident that the words dictate themselves. We're cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.

Hundreds of different hunter-gatherer cultures have been described, and all obtained a substantial proportion of their diet from meat, often half their calories or more.

wild fruits are not nearly as rewarding as those domesticated fruits. The edible pulp of a forest fruit is often physically hard, and it may be protected by a skin, coat, or hairs that have to be removed. Most fruits have to be chewed for a long time before the pulp can be fully detached from the pieces of skin or seeds, and before the solid pieces are mashed enough to give up their valuable nutrients.

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

being conscious of the fuel-burning activities that you engage in every day is good for you.

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

We have become food consumers, not food producers or makers. We have outsourced our cooking to corporations.

The goal is to understand how this period can be extended for as long as possible while simultaneously being mindful that it will eventually erode.

Given that 80 percent plus of the U.S. population lives in cities and suburbs, the connection with nature is fading to the detriment of all living creatures.

This participation is important, because Jesus and the prophets lived with an awareness that God has been looking for partners since the beginning, people who will take seriously their divine responsibility to care for the earth and each other in loving, sustainable ways.