Quotes About Sustainability

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."   (Jonas Salk)

Just like a plant or an animal a human being is an element of nature. So, save the mother-nature to save yourself; we are not different or above from her.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

The Tragedy of the Commons

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

I believe that people were not so allergic to their environment until they began polluting themselves and their world with so many drugs and toxins.

The hunter, as Theodore Roosevelt defined him, a man who fights for the integrity of both his prey and the land that sustained it, is being too often overwhelmed by men concerned mostly with playing dress up and shooting guns.

The estimated value of the water filtration and storage services provided by the earth's forests is more than $4 trillion a year; as a corollary, for every 10 percent reduction of forest land, the cost of treating drinking water grow by about 20 percent.

Beyond the economics of production efficiency, animal welfare laws that require "humane" treatment are really not about animals; they're about humans and making humans feel better about using animals. We can comfort ourselves with the idea that we are acting in a "humane" way.

If you didn't work—hunt game, harvest crops, or raise livestock—you didn't live long.

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It's a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

life goes on ad nauseam.

Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

The world would go on; man might die, but the earth still yielded up its abundance.

My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

Cleaning that is environmentally sensitive is a continual process of discovery and implementation of solutions.