Quotes About Sustainability

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. —Anaïs Nin

I feel the same about cocaine as I do about eating meat," she said. "It's vile and ultimately morally reprehensible, but as long as I don't pay for it—I find it quite enjoyable.

The future belongs, not to those who have the most, but to those who do the most with what they have.

It took nearly ten thousand years from the first attempts at agriculture for the world's population to reach a billion. Now we are adding extra people at a billion every dozen years.

It has been estimated that a hunter-gatherer needs about ten square miles of game and berry-filled land to live on, whereas agriculture can produce enough calories in a tenth of that space to keep fifty people alive.

Son zamanlarda, demokrasiler birbirleriyle yar??an siyasi partilerin oy verenlerine daha iyi materyal bir gelecek (daha fazla e?ya) vaat etmeleri üzerine kurulmu?tur, her y?l her nesilde artan materyaller. Ama bilim ve bar?? gezegenin popülasyonunu do?al kaynaklar?n kar??layabilece?inden daha fazla artt?rd??? için bu uzun sürekli bir teklif de?ildir.

In this, the people living in the Near East were especially fortunate. There are fifty-six edible grasses growing wild in the world – cereals like wheat, barley, corn and rice. Of those, no fewer than thirty-two grew on the hills and plains of the Fertile Crescent of today's southern Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Iraq, compared with just four varieties apiece in Africa and America, and only one native variety, oats, in Western Europe.

The same arts that did gain A power, must it maintain.

Cow pastures exist because we need meat, not because of any clever social thinking on the cow's behalf.

The solution to the economic crisis is widely thought to be growth. But that will only accelerate global warming. The rich countries need to switch to steady-state or 'degrowth' economies to save the planet, but capitalism needs growth to survive; it's in its DNA. Soviet state socialism proved no better environmentally. We need a different model.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.

The fate of the world depends on agriculture, so it's good to know about it. Agriculture feeds, clothes, protects from the cold, provides entertainment and supports art.

The sun shines differently, the air is different, water is not as it used to be. The things we used to eat, made use of, are dying, diminishing, deteriorating. We never cultivated the land. Unlike you humans we never tore at it with hoes and ploughs. To you, the earth pays a bloody tribute. It bestowed gifts on us. You tear the earth's treasures from it by force. For us, the earth gave birth and blossomed because it loved us. - 197

I finally understood that I couldn't avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful thing, a beautiful thing.

Although Yamashita and Amemiya grow and prepare their own food—both of which definitely take a lot of time—they seem to be suffused in timelessness, in an endless present.

People keep finding themselves in an unforgiving matrix of overwork, stress, and unwilling complicity in the destruction of the earth.

It is like what Voltaire said, "Il faut cultiver son jardin": You must cultivate your own garden.

Cars are environmental enemy number one. (from an interview in Attitude, 2002)

My dream: to be able to drive a virus-powered car.

The business of business should not just be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed.

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.