Quotes About Sustainability

The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.

That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.

I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.

I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

One of the easiest ways to go green is to go small. I want to show people that there's an amazing modern green future, and make it easy for them to step into it.

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?

The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption.

Caring about the environment has always been a big part of my life. When you grow up in a really beautiful place and you hear that it is jeopardised you want to do something.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.