Quotes About Sustainability

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment, but the engagement of our customers.

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

evidently what he was subsisting on was rage and recrimination. When interviewed on whether that was a sustainable traditional diet, a Shoshone elder looked into the camera and shrugged, said it had kept him going for eighty-eight years so far, hadn't it?

The world is not a static backdrop across which humans can move, building their suburbs where they will, the only intelligent actors on the planet. They call it the American dream, as George Carlin once put it, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Well, then we shall live by the cottontails and porcupines. We know how. There are many more of those than they or their wagsi can catch or starve. They can get rid of us only if they destroy our homes, fill up our springs, and fence the earth against our return. The earth will always have a way to care for us.

have just been reading in the press the agonizing statement that there are only 4,000,000,000,000 cords of pulp wood left in the world, and that in another fifty years it will be all gone.

Breathless living is anything but the abundant life. The pace at which we live is not sustainable.

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.

Commit to not going back to the store no matter what. If you run out of something like a spice or an accompanying vegetable, substitute with something else.

Do a Google search for local farmers or food co-ops.

According to Green Cross Switzerland, 9 trillion gallons of water are used annually in textile production around the world. Most of it is dumped untreated.3

Humane food appears to be more expensive because all its costs are included in the price. With factory food, we pay its costs in other ways.

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.

Now more than ever we are all becoming more aware about the need to conserve our precious living heritage.

For example, as you're reading this paragraph, our whales and dolphins are still dying painful lingering deaths.

Be considerate with the Earth. More people have to use it when you're gone."

It is estimated that if everyone on the planet adopted a Western lifestyle, we would need five planets to support us. Around 20% of people living in the wealthy Western world consume 86% of the world' s resources. The world' s wealthiest 225 people have combined assets roughly equal to the annual income of the poorest 2. 5 billion people.