Quotes About Sustainability

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

En fin, instalado ya en el limbo ambiental, sin voluntad y conocimiento en el gobierno, ni recursos, ni visión o programa, México enfrenta una peligrosa y perturbadora regresión ambiental.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

there is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

Los pueblos originarios siempre viven dosificadamente de algo que los blancos luego despilfarran. Una vez que lo han despilfarrado, se frotan los ojos y quieren protegerlo. Entonces lo protegen de aquellos de quienes nunca fue necesario protegerlo, y presumen de ello.

We're so obsessed with assuring our own perpetuity that our goals seldom coincide with what would be good for humankind

Recycling has been little more than a comforting distraction from the stuff that really matters.

The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.

No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

Fishing cooperatives,

La humanidad va a pasar un mal rato el día del juicio final, cuando tenga que rendir cuentas de lo que ha estado haciendo, sobre todo a partir del siglo XX, con los animales para carne, particularmente con los terneros, los cerdos y los pollos, las prinicipales víctimas de la ganadería intensiva.

A system that has only one goal, the maximization of profits in an endless quest for the accumulation of capital on an ever-ending scale, and which thus seeks to transform every single thing on earth into a community with a price, is a system that is soulless; it can never have a soul, never be green. It can never stand still, but is driven to manipulate and fabricate whims and wants in order to grow and sell more... forever. Nothing is allowed to stand in its path.

In general, the well-off have the money to outsource their deforesting as they buy food and other commodities grown by clearing land in other countries. As we have seen, they don't stop deforesting, they just do it somewhere far from home.

Bad profits are about extracting value from customers, not creating value.

We eat living food. Through our food we learn constantly how to live on this earth. We are constantly supported by all phenomenal currents of life; we are lived by all beings. That is the truth. We are lived by whom and whatever we take, by their teachings that guide us. One way to live is to show all of their natures through our existence. It is different from our usual way of continuously exploring our capacities for what we really want to do.