Quotes About Sustainability

It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.

Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world

You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.