Quotes About Sustainability

Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.

All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

I don't believe in fad diets.

Environmentalists are so dreary.

According to Grandad, being a vegetarian wasn't about just health or cruelty of money or flavor: it was about manners. He said that stealing milk and eggs and honey was enough of a liberty without hacking off someone's leg and then drowning it in gravy. He had a point.

It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not enough for every man's greed."56

three hundred trout are required to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, which must consume 27 million grasshoppers, which live off of 1,000 tons of grass."10

But what if I were to say to you that 25 years from now, the bulk of the energy you use to heat your home and run your appliances, power your business, drive your vehicle, and operate every part of the global economy will likewise be nearly free? That's already the case for several million early adopters

The well-being of the biosphere is measured over millennia of history and necessitates a human consciousness that can reflect and project along a similar time table.

Automobiles consumed "20 percent of the steel, 12 percent of the aluminum, 10 percent of the copper, 51 percent of the lead, 95 percent of the nickel, 35 percent of the zinc, and 60 percent of the rubber used in the U.S." by 1933.