Quotes About Sustainability

Any do-gooder can save one life or a dozen by spending x dollars, but that doesn't demonstrate anything unless you've got x dollars multiplied by the total number of lives that need saving. Stopping poverty one victim at a time is like mowing a lawn one blade at a time. The problem grows faster than the cure can be applied, the only people who profit are the agencies who claim to be cutting grass while they're actually applying fertilizer.

Humanity is meant to live as part of creation, not as the owner of it or to make war against it.

we worship the salmon because we eat salmon

The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves

There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.

Do not let your life, ministry or organization go faster than your resources.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

With an estimated population of nine billion people by 2050, we cannot continue to consume resources at the same rate and maintain our quality of life.

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

The United States has an incredible debt. That is obviously not the way to live. You have to eliminate waste in your life as the United States has to eliminate waste in its spending.

Many souls thrive on the life force of others and you are lunch!

The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.

Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.

It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.

The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.

Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.