Quotes About Sustainability

We must live according to the principle of a land ethic. The alternative is that we shall not live at all.

Ironically, it seems that it is by the means of seemingly perfunctory daily rituals and routines that we enhance the personal relationships that nourish and sustain us.

The land lives," is how one young rancher put it to me. But now that the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area contains more people than Montana and the Dakotas combined, I fear that his attitude will prove incomprehensible to modern, urban Americans who live as if they have outgrown the land that feeds them, as incomprehensible as a similar reverence for the land among Native Americans was to the railroad barons, merchants, and immigrant farmers of a century ago.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

When the world is falling apart, it's even more important that we find a way to last. The planet and its people need us to be healthy and grounded, not gasping for breath.

I drive a car that has pleather seats.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.

We have to save the world before we can live in it

Second-hand gold is as good as new.

They have marginalized the very capabilities our children need to create a more equitable and sustainable world, including creativity, critical thinking, citizenship, collaboration, and compassion.

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Ecology teaches us "that the total economy of the planet cannot be guided by an efficient rationale of exploitation alone," wrote Burke more than 70 years ago, "but that the exploiting part must eventually suffer if it too greatly disturbs the balance of the whole.

When the French were here, they began cutting down the trees. Haiti's dictators finished the job, leaving the topsoil to run into the ocean. All that splendid mahogany furniture in Paris salons and this is the result: a bald brown island with a muddy coast.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Pollution from garbage, sewage, and agricultural fertilizer runoff, combined with overfishing and spills from offshore oil drilling, may kill off edible sea life completely by 2048.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

You understand? If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.

Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. " — Chief Seattle Suqwamish and Duwamish T

To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.