Quotes About Sustainability

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.

I want the planet protected for my children.

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

Protecting our environment and natural resources is necessary for both our planet and our economy.

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

Protecting the environment is just as important a priority as the economic imperatives.

The simple fact that half of the oxygen that we breathe is produced by the oceans should be reason enough to mobilize around the issue of better protecting our oceans.

You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.

There's nothing wrong with being an innovator, but how do you innovate? Are you just destroying the place, or are you protecting the place?

I believe in the Green New Deal. Fundamentally, what we recognize is that we don't have to choose between protecting our planet and growing our economy and creating jobs and opportunity.

New Jerseyans know the importance of clean air, clean drinking water, and protecting our natural resources.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.

The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.

The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then it sacrifices itself and blows away.

Let's not pretend we're in a global free market when it comes to agriculture. Every country protects, for good reason, its agricultural industries.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

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