Quotes About Sustainability

Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.

We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.

Climate neutrality means a situation where the world can naturally absorb the emissions that will continue to be produced in our societies.

We will need to reach out to all those actors - to governments, to civil societies, to businesses - and help in mobilizing them to help in this fight against climate change.

The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

I'm sure we've all had that annoying experience when we desperately need a flashlight, we find one, and the batteries are out. Imagine how much money we would save and the amount of toxins leached into the soil, etc., reduced if we didn't use any batteries in flashlights!

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.

Through food, Ive become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity.

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for industry, will come from the soil.

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all.

The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to see that growing things in a garden is no different to growing things in a field.

Essentially, all life on the planet is coming from the earth. Whether it is a human being or an earthworm, it is the same soil.

Food is politics. You know, we have one planet. And growing food is, you're using the soil of the planet.