Quotes About Sustainability

It seems very strange that the ocean is full of things that one can eat as one likes, and on land everything seems to be spoken for," Temeraire said

I'd live in the fields on hard corn for a just cause. Yes, for a just cause I'd live in the fields On hard corn.

For this, let gardens grow, where beelines end, sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia; where bees pray on their knees, sing, praise in pear trees, plum trees; bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.

bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.

She watered her pepper plants with the water she used to rinse out her unmentionables....

Did you think of anyone else?" Enid had asked the folk of this household. "Did you think of the next generation that'll have to work this land and wonder why they're getting half the yield they should? Or the ones who'll starve when the land gives up because you"—she had pointed at them, with two stiff fingers—"couldn't be bothered to take care of it?

Humans - a renewable resource.

The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

You have to farm the land. People have to eat. You can't play all the time.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?

You don't really need much. I try to live my life with that sort of minimalist mentality.

It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.

Sadly, many people in our biggest cities are at the mercy of industrial food.

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much.

Neodymium is one of 17 'rare-earth metals,' and these elements have turned out to be critical to the rapidly-growing green technology industries.

Scaling is multidimensional. Different methods address different things.