Quotes About Sustainability

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The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.

Caring for small things had to start with caring for big things, and maybe the world wasn't big enough.

But there were times when you needed trees, and the shame of it, Jaime thought, was that his children were growing up thinking of trees as firewood and his grandchildren would think of trees as history. But

People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for--Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

This is what we can promise the future: a legacy of care. That we will be good stewards and not take too much or give back too little, that we will recognize wild nature for what it is, in all its magnificent and complex history - an unfathomable wealth that should be consciously saved, not ruthlessly spent.

How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run, will tell what kind of people we really are. -Laurance S. Rockefeller

Terry Tempest Williams

Our species is committing suicide- that is a choice -and in the process, we are causing others pain.

We form the future by being caretakers of our past.

There is an organic difference between a system of self-sufficiency and a self sustaining system. One precludes diversity, the other necessitates it.

By honoring wilderness, we honor beauty. Beauty is not peripheral but at the core of what sustains us.

We trust - and trust is imperative - that we can create an economically viable and ecologically sustainable plan for the town, the land, and its creatures, alongside the interests of [a developer].

Before every meal, a monk or a nun recites the Five Contemplations: "This food is the gift of the whole universe—the earth, the sky, and much hard work. May we live in a way that is worthy of this food. May we transform our unskillful states of mind, especially that of greed. May we eat only foods that nourish us and prevent illness. May we accept this food for the realization of the way of understanding and love.

Be like the earth. When the rain comes, the earth simply opens up to the rain and soaks it all in.

We have to look deeply to see how we grow our food, so we can eat in ways that preserve our collective well-being, minimize our suffering and the suffering of other species, and allow the earth to continue to be a source of life for all of us. If, while we eat, we destroy living beings or the environment, we are eating the flesh of our own sons and daughters. We need to look deeply together and discuss how to eat, what to eat, and what to resist.

One of his self–imposed tasks was to go about the house after Lester, or the servants, turning out the gas–jets or electric–light bulbs which might accidentally have been left burning. That was a sinful extravagance.

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There are four kinds of food that every person consumes every day. In Buddhism, we call these kinds of food the Four Nutriments. They are edible food; sense impressions; volition; and consciousness, both individual and collective.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives —the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

You can arrange your schedule so you have enough time to eat. The place and teh food should be appropriate. Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are. Tell me where you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

There is no difference between healing ourselves and healing the Earth.

You have the right to pursue economic growth, but not at the expense of life.