Quotes About Sustainability

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.

So, I went to McGill University in Montreal to study soil chemistry and microbiology, which I did complete, but realized early that little of this could be applied in our country, because we were learning of a Green Revolution that would suit a farmer who had 3,500 acres and not our poor farmer.

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

That's all you do in life: you find your perch, and if it suits you, just carry on. There's nothing Graham Greene about it.

To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms of improving production and productivity.

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

I was at Earth Summit in Rio 20 years ago... I was only 12 years old. And when I was speaking to the U.N. I was fighting for my future.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

I take my kids to a farmers' market each Sunday to buy organic produce.

I'll go grocery shopping at the farmer's market on a Sunday and already know what I'm going to cook for the next two, three or four days.

Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality.

Are we polluted? We can unpollute ourselves.

Vivimos en una época en que las flores tratan de vivir de flores, en lugar de crecer gracias a la lluvia y al negro estiércol. Incluso los fuegos artificiales, pese a su belleza, proceden de la química de la tierra. Y, sin embargo, pensamos que podemos crecer, alimentándonos con flores y fuegos artificiales, sin completar el ciclo, de regreso a la realidad.

Chief Seattle: "The Earth does not belong to Man; Man belongs to the Earth."6

La verdadera riqueza de una nación se mide por su capacidad de brindar, de una forma sostenida, altos niveles de vida a todos sus ciudadanos.

Noveno, existe una agenda económica exhaustiva que podría restaurar el crecimiento y la prosperidad compartida.