Quotes About Sustainability

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

What is the key to life on Earth?

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of life in the sea.

In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.

Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product.

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.