Quotes About Sustainability

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.

When I buy, I buy players for the long term, not the short term because I do respect the club a lot and also the other clubs.

It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that dependency starts with the government.

We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.

We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.

A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

Energy projects lead to peace

Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries.

Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then?

Our once green and blue planet is becoming a concrete and plastic shopping centre.

How did wheat convince Homo sapiens to exchange a rather good life for a more miserable existence? What did it offer in return? It did not offer a better diet. Remember, humans are omnivorous apes who thrive on a wide variety of foods. Grains made up only a small fraction of the human diet before the Agricultural Revolution. A diet based on cereals is poor in minerals and vitamins, hard to digest, and really bad for your teeth and gums.

The only sure way to stop global warming is to stop economic growth, which no government is willing to do.