Quotes About Sustainability

Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.

The antidote for civilization.

It keeps going, and going, and going . . .

All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot.

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.

We come from the earth. We return to the earth. And in between we garden.

I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese.

Save a tree. Eat a beaver.

If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.

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Every day is Earth Day.

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.

Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary.

Nature never goes out of style.

If we're going to get the world running on nuclear power instead of coal one day – and let me tell you, after living in Manchester, that'll make a big difference to a great many people

less inequality is associated with greater macroeconomic stability and more sustainable growth.

What's the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth?

Plants eat light, father says, but even plants can overeat.

For 2,600 years, the man continues, those of us in the Western tradition have been assured that the role of humanity is to subdue the earth. That all creation was created for us to harvest. And for 2,600 years we pretty much got away with it. Temperatures remained constant, seasons stayed predictable, and we cut down forests and fished out oceans and elevated one god above all others: Growth.

a bondade, mais do que qualquer outra coisa, é o que perdura.

Yesterday she walked three hours to harvest water lilies from a lake so her kids would have something to eat. And what do our most enlightened leaders suggest we do? Switch to e-billing. Buy three LED bulbs and get a free tote bag. Earth has eight billion people to feed and the extinction rate is a thousand times higher than it was at pre-human levels.