Quotes About Sustainability

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

If you want to be free, learn to live simply. Use what you have and be content where you are. Quit trying to solve your problems by moving to another place, by changing mates or careers. Leave your car in the garage. If you have a gun, put it away. Sell that complex computer and go back to using pencil and paper. Rather than read every new book that comes along, reread the classics. Eat food grown locally. Wear simple, durable clothing. Keep a small home

The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is going to live.

Cut my coat after my cloth.

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

Create the change you seek in the world. Be an ecopreneur. Launch your dream green business.

The Grow Biointensive method is especially important for areas with scarce water.

Food is power. . . are you in control of yours?

According to Robert S. McNamara, former president of the World Bank, without firm action to further reduce the population growth rate, world population will not stabilize below eleven billion. "At the national level," states McNamara, "rapid population growth translates into a steadily worsening employment future, massive city growth, pressure on food supplies, degradation of the environment, an increase in the number of 'absolute poor,' and a stimulus to authoritarian government.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little

Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

Step lightly upon the earth, but leave a little ray of hope.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

the case of land and water, where there is enough of both, is perfectly the same.

You cannot talk of preserving environment when the majority of the citizens are depending on charcol or wood for most of their energy source.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

Armed with the new right to sell their products back to host societies, they can bleed both producing and buying populations at the same time. That is why under new international "free trade" agreements private corporations and businesses have increasingly demanded that governments deregulate and lower taxes so that they are not obliged to pay the cost of sustaining the life of host-societies or their environments.

The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat.

He said, "Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It's not, if you're mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.

Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.

The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.