Quotes About Sustainability

To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

London only stimulates, it cannot sustain

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their checks. But ultimately, it's not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It's the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.

And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

When branches are pruned, more of the life of the vine goes into producing the fruit. Without pruning, each year more and more of the sap of the vine goes into sustaining more and more branches and leaves, and each year the fruit is a bit smaller than it was last year. Just as God prunes our lives, removing those good things that bore fruit in the previous season of our lives so all of our energy can be poured into new areas of growth, God does the same thing in the church.

A kiss to Mother Earth for carrying me all these years.

Human beings were made to interact with growing things, not to be born, live, and die in the midst of concrete set in the middle of polluted air!

Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world's resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

It is not enough to understand the natural world. The point is to defend and preserve it.

Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.