Quotes About Sustainability

Dharma must not only domesticate nature, it also needs to ensure there is harmony between nature and culture.

Ashrama ensures that not more than two generations utilised the earth's resources at any one time. When the grandson is born, it is time to retire, eat less food than the householder. And when the great grandson is born, it is time to become a hermit, eat what the forest, not the field, provides.

A banyan tree may offer shade and hold the promise of permanence, but it does not let even a blade of grass grow around it, nor does it provide life-sustaining fruit for man. The banana plant offers no shade but its rapid regenerative ability ensures it provides food to sustain the family. Snow may be still but cannot sustain life. To sustain life, it must melt, turn into a river and flow down the plains.

Anything goes as one fends for oneself.

Restraint is the key to regeneration and hence, also, sustainability.

You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.

And we can't have that. Plastic is no comparison for

Trees don't simply maintain the conditions necessary for human and most animal life on earth, trees created these conditions through the community of forests. Trees paved the way for the human family. The debt we owe them is too big to ever repay.

The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe.

The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe...cutting down trees was a suicidal act.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

We planted a tree and that one tree made the world better.

Save the Earth...it's the only planet with chocolate

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

town where people can draw water and drink from it, bathe in it and use it for any other purpose. His riches go to enjoyment, not to waste."3

the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it

The marvels of today's modern technology include the development of the soda can, which when discarded will last forever ... and a $7,000 car which when properly cared for will rust out in two or three years." --Guido Sarducci

Across the continent since Europeans first arrived, 92 per cent of old-growth forest has been destroyed. The

A story tells of Henry Ford's buying scrapped Ford cars and having his engineers disassemble them to see which parts failed and which were still in good shape. Engineers assumed this was done to find the weak parts and make them stronger. Nope. Ford explained that he wanted to find the parts that were still in good shape. The company could save money if they redesigned these parts to fail at the same time as the others.

Man must learn that his current path is not suitable for Earth, and soon, Earth won't be suitable for Man.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.