Quotes About Sustainability

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent.

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude

Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

Anything you don't water, anything you don't take care of in your life, is going to die.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.

There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

Life creates conditions conducive to life.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

You waste life when you waste good food.

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

"You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.