Quotes About Sustainability

We in the Himalayas have the problem of glaciers melting away and we had to make our own glaciers and I don't consider them proud or great achievement. It is only mainly to adapt to the problems that we have caused in this planet; The real solutions lie elsewhere; maybe people in the big cities of India, China and US can solve it.

I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.

President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our children. Most presidents say that sort of thing.

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

AI can help solve some of the most difficult social and environmental challenges in areas like healthcare, disaster prediction, environmental conservation, agriculture, or cultural preservation.

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.

I think someday, out in space, perhaps, some people might be able to grow some of their own food or hopefully on another planet.

You probably need 1/10 of the world's population for us to continue to exist. There's just too many damn people. You have to somehow get us from 7 billion people to... I don't know what the magic number is, but I imagine at some point, that will happen. And I don't know about you, but I don't think I'm making the cut.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

Let us grow strong rootsWatering and nurturing Each other daily.

A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.

I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

Light is found on the green.

All of the world was crying out for cotton, and the new land of the County, unworn and fertile, produced it abundantly. Cotton was the heart beat of the section, the planting and the picking were the diastole and systole of the red earth.

You need nature more than she needs you. It is not an equal relationship. Serve her well and she will look after you. Abuse her and everyone loses.

An immaculate garden is a hostile place to most wildlife. Beautifully weeded borders, with every fallen leaf and twig gathered and disposed of, hedges kept constantly crisp and grass mown to within a fraction of its life may make a certain sort of gardener glow with pride but will provide little comfort for most of our birds, mammals and insects.

a little, would have existed to keep animals

Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever.

climate change as a battle between capitalism and the planet

Nonetheless, that order has now been destabilized, which means that the rest of us are going to have to quickly figure out how to turn "managed degrowth" into something that looks a lot less like the Great Depression and a lot more like what some innovative economic thinkers have taken to calling "The Great Transition."56

It is our predicament that we live in a finite world, and yet we behave as if it were infinite.