Quotes About Sustainability

Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have.

If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.

The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems

The beauty of the environment is an important factor in the quality of life.

The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.