Quotes About Sustainability

We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.

Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.

Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind

If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.

I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time.

Remember when you were considered an environmentalist when you didn't throw junk out the car window? I sure do miss that simpler, happier time.

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly