Quotes About Sustainability

No heredamos nuestra madre tierra de nuestros antepasados, pero simplemente prestado su de nuestros niños y nuestras próximas generaciones por venir. Debemos mantener su belleza, elegancia y gracia; y protegerla de materiales peligrosos para el medio ambiente - que debe ser nuestro compromiso en el día de la tierra!

We don't inherit our Mother Earth from our ancestors, but we simply borrow her from our children and our next generations yet to come. We must maintain her beauty, elegance and grace; and protect her from environmentally unsafe materials - that should be our commitment on the Earth Day!

Lawns, it seems to me, are against nature, barren and often threadbare - the enemy of a good garden. For the same trouble as mowing, you could have a year's vegetables: runner beans, cauliflowers and cabbages, mixed with pinks and peonies, shirley poppies and delphiniums; wouldn't that beautify the land and save us from the garden terrorism that prevails?

Look what the mortals are doing to themselves. Look at what they've done to the world. They're bleeding the planet dry. They're poisoning the air, the land and the sea, and they know exactly what they're doing,

The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

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Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

Development is maintenance.

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.

Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life's genius.