Quotes About Sustainability

There are too many f***ing people on the planet. Everybody's got to stop having 40 kids. We need free access to birth control and health care for women.

It's time for people in this country to go, 'Yeah, this is how it's got to be if we are all going to live on the planet, and if this planet is going to sustain itself with us on it, then everything has to change itself drastically.' If it doesn't, we'll see how long it all lasts.

Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good.

Every human creature," he used to say, "has three essential things that must always be in harmony among themselves: a heart, a brain, and a wallet. If these three elements don't work together, problems will come.

maybe you are only a drop in a bucket—or a teaspoon in a desert—but there are some fragile plants that will die if your teaspoon goes away.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.