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Quotes About Sustainability

Humans are destabilizing the global biosphere on multiple fronts. We are taking more and more resources out of the environment while pumping back into it enormous quantities of waste and poison, thereby changing the composition of the soil, the water, and the atmosphere
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Sauf à vous satisfaire de confier l'avenir de la vie aux résultats trimestriels, vous avez besoin d'une idée claire de la vie et de ses enjeux.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
This might sound like science fiction, but the world's first clean hamburger was grown from cells—and then eaten—in 2013. It cost $330,000.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.
~ Yvon Chouinard
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
~ Yvon Chouinard
most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.
~ Yvon Chouinard
Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
~ Yvon Chouinard
I don't really believe that humans are evil; it is just that we are not very intelligent animals. No animal is so stupid as to foul its only nest, except humans.
~ Yvon Chouinard
We want customers who need our clothing, not just desire it.
~ Yvon Chouinard
What we take, how and what we make, what we waste, is in fact a question of ethics.
~ Yvon Chouinard
Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it, when done for the right reasons, can be an act of love which expresses our own dignity. —
~ Yvon Chouinard
use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.
~ Yvon Chouinard
As our elders teach us how to find more inner satisfaction, we'll decrease our reliance on consumerism and live in greater harmony with the Earth and its resources.
~ Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.
~ Zenna Schaffer
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend.
~ Zenna Schaffer
Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.
~ Zoe Weil
If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.
~ Zoe Weil
In order to make most good, least harm choices, and create a humane and sustainable world, we are going to have to become adept at making connections. Single-issue thinking and taking sides when issues are presented to us in simplistic terms will have to give way to far more nuanced research, consideration, and decision making.
~ Zoe Weil
This world belongs to our future generations, so we have to take utmost care of it.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.
~ Debbie Stabenow
Good literature is not the sole key to a sustained livable future for all, but it is certainly one of the keys
~ Deborah Ellis
the study revealed that organic foods have a 25 percent higher concentration of eleven vitamins and minerals than their conventionally grown counterparts.
~ Deborah Kesten
Organic food is unequivocally higher in health-enhancing nutrients than its conventionally grown counterparts
~ Deborah Kesten
Organic. Sustainable. Grass fed. Free-range. Local. Green.
~ Deborah Kesten