Quotes About Sustainability

Natural gas is a bridge fuel. But it's not a bridge - it's a gangplank. It's either a bridge in space or a bridge in time. The bridge in time we don't need. We have renewable technology right now.

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.

I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.

It's hard to imagine yourself in the future. It's why people do so many dumb things, because they're mired in the moment. Smoking, drinking, making disastrous marriages, putting off medical tests. The reason we've made a mess of the planet is that being its stewards required us to imagine not our own futures but those four or five generations removed.

A fix-it man, they used to call it, when things still got fixed instead of just junked. If

The reason we've made a mess of the planet is that being its stewards required us to imagine not our own futures but those four or five generations removed.

Popierius atlaiko daugiau nei žmon?s.

Yet not matter how much we recycle, believe in our Priuses, and abide by local laws, we see that our beauty is being destroyed, crushed by greed and cruel stupidity.

We will eat the figs of our own tree, and the grapes of our own garden.

The creator is not puritan. A creature need not work for a living; creatures may simply steal and suck and be blessed for all that with a share—an enormous share—of the sunlight and air.

By now, Tally understood that nothing in the Smoke ever lost its value. Nothing was discarded or given away just because it was old or broken.

Every day Fu-shee, the smaller children, and I fan out in the hills around Green Dragon to strip trees of their bark and leaves, dig up roots and search for wild grass. We'll eat anything, and we have. But you can't eat a leather belt like it's a crisp cucumber. You soak it, boil it, and chew on it for days.

Your business has to work when it's small in order to survive to the point where it gets big.

The best marketers are farmers, not hunters. Plant, tend, plow, fertilize, weed, repeat. Let someone else race around after shiny objects.

farmer will tell you that fertile land is much more important than better seeds.)

If you are using outcomes that are out of your control as fuel for your work, it's inevitable that you will burn out. Because it's not fuel you can replenish, and it's not fuel that burns without a residue.

Well, dearest, what would you tell a farmer who had an over-abundant harvest? To plant less, of course!... I am not complaining about the frequency of the planting, she said. I'd just rather not reap a crop every year.

No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It's how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable.

As someone once said about water pollution, we all live downstream. We are all interconnected, and we can no longer afford the luxury of not thinking about the rest of the planet in anything we do.