Quotes About Sustainability

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

Moving toward a more harmonious way of life and greater resilience requires our active participation. This means finding ways to become more aware of and connected to the other forms of life that are around us and that constitute our food -- plants and animals, as well as bacteria and fungi -- and to the resources, such as water, fuel, materials, tools, and transportation, upon which we depend. It means taking responsibility for our shit, both literally and figuratively.

Culture begins with cultivating the land, planting seeds, bringing intentionality to cycles that we act to perpetuate.

Doesn't it bother your conscience to know that thousands of trees give up their lives just to keep you in reading matter that you dont read?

The earth will support anything that supports life.

She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.

In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.

Clear-cutting was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behend, David said. It just takes a little surgery to do it.

Anyone looking for the holy land might best begin with the earth that sustains us.

They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

Say no to asphalt!

Say no to parking lots!

Could we make it our own, there would be an eternally inexhaustible earth and a forever lasting peace.

Already we see a trend in our own technological societies towards the fabrication of smaller and smaller machines that consume less and less energy and produce almost no waste. Taken to its logical conclusion, we expect advanced life-forms to be as small as the laws of physics allow.

Our current food system is simply unsustainable: when as many as 20 calories of energy or resources goes into every 1 calorie of food nutrition that we end up eating;

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.