Quotes About Sustainability

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.

The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

You can't live a healthy life on a sick planet.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of this planet. There is no need to burn anything anymore.

People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

There's actually a straightforward solution to invasive species: Eat 'em!

Vegetables you've grown in your own garden just taste better. Meals that you've cooked yourself just taste better. And yes, animals that you've killed yourself just taste better.

there are serious environmental and ethical problems with the industrial food system.

the food movement needs people who can do the dirty work: hunt wild boar, gut deer, eat invasive species, try insects, raise animals the right way, and pay for ethically raised meat. That role falls to us.

From this perspective, the earth would no longer be simply a marketplace, its lands and resources divided among competing human groups.

Today, cardinal-flower is a legally protected species and should never be picked or removed from the wild.

doing less harm is no longer enough

Green Swans, in essence, are about regeneration—of our societies, economies, and, most fundamentally, of the biosphere. This is where things must now go seriously exponential, in a good way.

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

We are the environment and how we treat each other is really how we treat the environment

Now we can rediscover these natural treasures, restoring the ecology to create a greener environment

Yet, sustainability, the guiding concept behind ecological modernization, is as much a political–economic dimension as an ecological one: what can be sustained is only what political and social forces in a particular historical alignment define as acceptable (Gould et al. 1993: 231).