Quotes About Sustainability

many of us use what spare time and money we have earned undoing the impact of our jobs or companies. And that gets harder every day.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.

I speak for the trees!

I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!

Dolphin-safe tuna, that's great if you're a dolphin. What if you're a tuna? Somewhere there's a tuna flopping around a ship going, "What about me? I'm not cute enough for you?"

infinite growth on a finite planet

When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.

Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.

We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.

What we do every day - whether you live in Mexico, the United States, Russia, China can have a very negative impact on an entire way of life for an entire people far away from that source

Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

If we are to begin to try and understand life as it will be in 1960, we must begin by realizing that food, clothing and shelter will cost as little as air

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.

Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

In all aspects of my life, I try to reduce my impact on the earth - that includes snowboarding, as well.

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.