Quotes About Sustainability

Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life—all life—is in the service of life.

You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life.

Cómo es posible que un planeta pueda convertirse en un Edén sin dinero? —¿De qué os sirve el dinero si no os procura los servicios que necesitáis? —preguntó a su vez Kynes.

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those things who come after.

See how little I value my water when it is taken by animals.

The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

You'll acquire the blue eyes and a callus beside your lovely nose from the filter tube to your stillsuit.

Life improves the capacity to sustain life [...] Life makes needed nutrients more readily available. It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay from organism to organism.

For what would you use such a place, Paul Atreides?" "To make this planet a fit place for humans," Paul said. Perhaps that's why I help them, Kynes thought.

Life improves the capacity of the environment to sustain life," his father said. "Life makes needed nutrients more readily available. It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay from organism to organism.

Duke: How is a planet to become an Eden without money? Kynes: What is money if it won't buy the services you need?

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis [...] You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

O sistema histórico de pilhagem e extorsão mútuas tem um fim aqui em Arrakis. Não se pode seguir roubando aquilo de que se precisa sem pensar naqueles que virão depois. As características físicas de um planeta estão escritas em seu registro econômico e político.

Cuanta más vida hay en un sistema, mayor es la cantidad de nichos que existen para preservar esta vida

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem,' Kynes said, 'is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization—agriculture.

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

Dependency infrastructure is a term that includes all things necessary for a human population to survive at existing or increased numbers

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.

Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generations. But what I love most is the peek it provides into the planting, harvesting, hunting, and preparing of the foods that America's settler families ate in the late 1800s.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.