Quotes About Sustainability

I need to work to support myself and my kids. No one pays for my support.

We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?

For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.

Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.

Very, very few adults possess so much charm that they can long be supported by another adult based on that attribute alone.

I've supported myself since 'Tigerland.'

We are strong supporters of energy efficiency. The question is: what is the most appropriate way of doing it?

For the Navy, developing alternatives to fossil fuels isn't just about fighting climate change - though that's an important side benefit. Biofuels will also play a much more practical role in the Navy's fuel mix, boosting our energy security and supporting the U.S. economy.

I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country.

We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment.

As governor of Washington, I've seen firsthand what's possible when you invest in clean energy - reducing carbon pollution and supporting family-wage jobs that are growing twice as fast as those in any other industry.

Supporting and investing in local economic projects has always been a significant part of my agenda.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

I think we all want to really live good lives, and we all really want to have a healthy planet, although I don't know if we're supposed to be on it forever. Now, does that mean that we should be building rocket ships to shoot us into outer space? Well if we can, I think we should.

We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other.

When I see somebody in a Prius, sure, you drive a Prius and you get good gas mileage, but you probably feel like you drive a Prius.

Kerala is called 'God's own country.' We need to make sure it is really so, for which we should ensure the entire state, including rivers and backwaters, are clean.

Surely, if we are going to be better at producing food of the right value, then we have to accept that genetic technology... is going to be part of that.

If people learned what they were contributing to every time they ate meat, eggs, or dairy, surely they would be just as motivated as I was to change.

Supporting people to stay in their homes is surely a better method of reducing homelessness than acting after the fact.