Quotes About Sustainability

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

Having a similar outlook on life is the central key for long-term sustainability in any love relationship.

Without good communication both verbally and non-verbally, then the love relationship is not sustainable and cannot grow.

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

Food is love, for my body, wellbeing, and the animals that go unheard every day.

I would love to see us all succeed together, but we will do what we have to do to succeed and survive in that sustainable way that benefits everyone.

Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.

We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat

Perhaps it would be an idea to require developers to live on their own estates for five years, as a demonstration of their superb liveability. It's just a thought. I

It seems madness to think that a society would rate marginal economic growth above a livable earth, but there you are. I had always assumed the reason to build a bigger economy was to make the world a better place. In fact, it appears, the reason to build a bigger economy is, well, to build a bigger economy.

My first rule of consumerism is never buy anything you can't make your children carry.

22 million tonnes of such unwanted fish are dumped back in the sea each year, mostly in the form of corpses.

I read once that it takes 75,000 trees to produce one issue of the Sunday New York Times — and it's well worth every trembling leaf. So what if our grandchildren have no oxygen to breathe? Fuck 'em.

Orange roughy, a sluggish but delicious ocean fish, were caught in vast numbers before marine biologists realized how desperately susceptible to extinction they were.

Many fishermen "fin" sharks—that is, slice their fins off, then dump them back into the water to die.

I read once that it takes 75,000 trees to produce one issue of the Sunday New York Times – and it's well worth every trembling leaf. So what if our grandchildren have no oxygen to breathe? Fuck 'em.

As the economist Herman Daly once put it: "The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation.

Very little arrives (those asteroid impacts are few and far between), and only a whisper of gas escapes. Everything else must be endlessly recycled: and so it is. The rain becomes the ocean and the ocean becomes the rain, the mountains are ground down to cover the sea-floors with silt, ancient silts rise up to make new mountains.

There is energy of all sorts flowing through our world; it is not hard to imagine new ways in which that energy can do the work of humanity, new ways to align our needs and the planet's behaviours.

Jane Jacobs cites it in her landmark work of 1969, The Economy of Cities)