Quotes About Sustainability

Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar.

The key is to use a healthy, sustainable strategy for weight loss that balances your hormones and brain chemistry and doesn't put you in a starvation response.

Newfoundlanders debated over when the cod was coming back. Few dared ask if. Or what happens to the ocean if they don't come back?

One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible.

Where there are Norwegian communities, there are cod clubs.

By 1937, every British trawler had a wireless, electricity, and an echometer - the forerunner of sonar. If getting into fishing had required the kind of capital in past centuries that it cost in the twentieth century, cod would never have built a nation of middle-class, self-made entrepreneurs in New England.

A world without fishing would be sad.

But as soon as paper started to be made from trees, concern shifted to the destruction of the forests.

teabag paper is not made from wood pulp but from the stalk of abaca, a banana-like plant grown in the Philippines. Abaca was first used as a paper source at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.

Respect for the natural world is fundamental to Bhutan's spiritual identity. More than half the country is off-limits to development or timbering. A whopping 50 percent of Bhutan's GDP comes from hydropower.

address the problem of keeping all this alive and safe without excluding or marginalizing the people who've lived here for centuries. That is a delicate balance: man and nature;

The better question might be: Please tell me which of these scraps you would have been unable to use a few years ago—and exactly what do you have to do to them to make them what you would consider "safe"?

The mere phrase 'artificial manure' told the whole story.

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Qué puede hacer una persona para ahorrar más agua? La respuesta me parece evidente: reducir el consumo de carne.

Today 2% of the US population work in farming and agriculture, and we feed the entire world.

No obstante, una empresa puede beneficiarse a corto plazo y no estar aquí a largo plazo, si no añade valor a la vida de otras personas y lo hace de forma continuada. Eso es tan cierto para las grandes empresas como para los individuos.

Just" 1% here, 1% there. Doesn't sound like much, but compounded over time, it could be the difference between your money lasting your entire life or surviving on government or family assistance.

Often, many of those who have earned millions of dollars haven't developed a plan to sustain their lifestyle without having to work at least some of the time.

No one dependent on him! Are not his father and his mother and his sisters dependent on him as long as he must eat their bread till he can earn bread of his own? He will never earn bread of his own. He will always be eating bread that others have earned

The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.

All of life is maintenance, for heaven's sake. That's the pleasant part. Taking care of things.

To those who want sustainable organizations and communities, my advice is: begin by being humble. Go back to school. Learn awareness. Learn about rank. You will save yourself and your community a lot of pain.