Quotes About Sustainability

El villano desconoce aquel estrato de la vida en que ésta ejercita solamente actividades suntuarias, supérfluas. Ignora el rebasar y el sobrar de la vitalidad. Vive atenido a lo necesario y lo que hace lo hace por fuerza. Obra siempre empujado; sus acciones son reacciones. No le cabe en la cabeza que alguien se meta en andanzas por lo que no le va ni le viene.

in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return.

If a business borrows to buy a machine, it's a good thing, not a bad thing. During the past six years, America—its government, its families, the country as a whole—has been borrowing to sustain its consumption. Meanwhile, investment in fixed assets—the plants and equipment that help increase our wealth—has been declining.

I should like to slip out of the public gaze...to bury myself in the farm and devote my attention to farming and educating." Mahatma Gandhi

If we eat too much we'll get too fat to hunt, and then where will we be?

Justbarley!

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

The world's population was fast approaching ten billion people, and Mother Earth was making it abundantly clear that she could no longer sustain all of us

But you do realize that nearly half the people on this planet are starving, right?" I detected no malice in her voice. She sounded like she genuinely believed I might not be aware of this fact. "Yes, I know," I said defensively. "The reason so many people are starving is because we've wrecked the planet. The Earth is dying, you know? It's time to leave.

Co-operative and corporate farming would have saved them all.

LIVING MATTER EVADES THE DECAY TO EQUILIBRIUM

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer ' we invariably choose the money.

The results we are looking for, unfortunately, often include stopping our thoughts altogether, or destroying unwanted emotions. One simple reason meditation is difficult to sustain is that the principal benefits of meditation are not short-term, and it is generally hard to convince ourselves to engage in anything that has mostly long-term effects. Our

Blossoming flowers look beautiful before they're cut or picked, but without soil or water they wither more quickly than grass.

As Henry Miller realized, "the earth is a Paradise. We don't have to make it a Paradise—it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it."23

Whether we can "save" the planet is one question – whether the planet needs saving is another.

If we want to solve 95 percent of the health problems in the world, what we need to do is give people enough to eat, and make sure they can drink clean water and breathe clean air.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

When I hug trees, the bark marks my cheek and reminds me I'm alive. Or that my nervous system is still intact. The trees breathe all the time and no one really notices. They take in all the air we choke on. They live and die in silence. So I hug them. Someone should.

As soon as you plow, you're releasing carbon.

Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon.

Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.

Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.

In the past 30 years, I have been trying to make education more relevant as our old education system valorises production and consumption.