Quotes About Sustainability

That we were dying, that we were killing our world - that sense had always been with me. That whatever I was doing, whatever we were doing that was creative and right, functioned to hold us from going over the edge. That was the most we could do while we constructed some saner future.

Laten we op zoek gaan naar 'vreugde' in plaats van naar eerlijk voedsel en schone lucht en een gezondere toekomst op een bewoonbare planeet! Alsof geluk volstaat om ons te beschermen tegen de gevolgen van winst-waanzin.

Lawyer: And what people live on is a mystery to me. They marry with an income of two thousand crowns when they need four. They borrow, to be sure, they all borrow ... but who has to pay in the end? Tell me that! Daughter: He Who feeds the birds.

Never Consume more than you produce.

The expense of eating is, in great part, the resistance the second life offers to being eaten.

The Earth gave you life, gave you food and language and intelligence, and will take you back when you die.

Maybe it doesn't have to be the way Jake Sully bleakly summarized it to Eywa. Maybe there is a way for us to keep the Earth green, without giving up our civilization and all the benefits it brings: by using the resources of space.

If you adopt a pattern of life that focuses on golden eggs and neglects the goose, you will soon be without the asset that produces golden eggs. On the other hand, if you only take care of the goose with no aim toward the golden eggs, you soon won't have the wherewithal to feed yourself or the goose.

In [Eisenhower's] view, 'Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.' In his farewell address as President, he asserted, 'We - you and I, and our government - must avoid plundering for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all ages to come.

Green fingers are better than gold.

Rising temperatures, reduction of the polar ice caps, deforestation, over-population, disease, war, famine, lack of water and decimation of animal species; these are all solvable but so far have not been solved.

Espero que en el futuro, incluso cuando yo ya no esté, las personas con poder puedan mostrar creatividad, coraje y liderazgo. Dejémosles ponerse al nivel del desafío de los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible, y actuar no por su propio interés sino por el interés común.

Creo que estamos actuando con imprudente indiferencia hacia nuestro futuro en el planeta Tierra.

El calentamiento global es causado por todos nosotros: queremos coches, viajes y un mejor nivel de vida.

Sustainable Foods = Sustainable Health = Sustainable Life = Victory

What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.

The most important thing that a human must do in order to maintain good health is to be aware of the environment that they grew up in and to keep it throughout life.

Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans.

The greater the number of fish a river bears the greater the number of fishermen that patronize it.

Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow.

A large vessel will never fill up no matter how small the leak is.

Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance

We can love ourselves by loving the earth.