Quotes About Sustainability

Naturally, the system would have to be rigidly closed, recycling all food, air, and other expendables. But, of course, that's just how the Earth operates—on a slightly larger scale.

Corpse-food was on the way out even in your time," Anderson explained. "Raising animals to—ugh—eat them became economically impossible. I don't know how many acres of land it took to feed one cow, but at least ten humans could survive on the plants it produced. And probably a hundred, with hydroponic techniques.

I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.

All the Blackwood women had taken the food that came from the ground and preserved it, and the deeply colored rows of jellies and pickles and bottled vegetables and fruit, maroon and amber and dark rich green, stood side by side in our cellar and would stand there forever, a poem by the Blackwood women.

we eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow an then we eat it.

La comida viene de la tierra y no podemos permitir que se quede allí y se pudra; hay que hacer algo con ella.

we do not inherit the world from our parents; we borrow it from our children.

By creating a park, and then providing jobs and salaries to local communities, we give economic incentives to people to protect what all of us surely want to preserve.

I shall not be content till this country can produce every single thing we need, even coffee, cocoa, and rubber, and so keep all our dollars at home. If

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

I think, if Demeter had to put her religion down on a form, she'd put Organic.

The future rests with the ones who tend the future.

I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.

Plant more flowers than you pick

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

Water is life, and clean water means health.