Quotes About Sustainability

If we'd been edible we'd never have lasted this long.

They won't stop killing the whales. They make dog- and cat-food out of them, face creams, lipstick. They kill the whales to feed the dogs so the dogs can shit on the pavement and the people can walk in it.

Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world's richest nations.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." —ALBERT EINSTEIN Considering

As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books.

Plastic is like that," Oliver was saying. "It never biodegrades. It gets churned around in the gyre and ground down into particles. Oceanographers call it confetti. In a granular state, it hangs around forever.

The United States has lost one-third of its topsoil since colonial times—so much damage in such a short history. Six to seven billion tons of eroded soil, about 85 percent, are directly attributable to livestock grazing and unsustainable methods of farming feed crops for cattle. In 1988, more than 1.5 million acres in Colorado alone were damaged by wind erosion during the worst drought and heat wave since the 1950s.

though. Here, besides books like Langer's Grow It!, Livingston's Guide to Edible Plants and Animals, Emery's Encyclopedia of Country Living and of course Seymour's Forgotten Arts and Crafts—their

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

Anyone can pluck a flowertrue strength is knowing how to give it life

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.

Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy.

The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

Patience is a key element of success.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Success without duplication is merely future failure in disguise.

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved that the country can live without the land.

Of what was plastic made? What died? He knew it was a product of petroleum, of oil, and so he assumed plastic was made out of the very lifeblood of the planet. When all the oil was drained, he imagined the planet quaking and shrinking in on itself, like a squeezed orange that has been sucked to death. He