Quotes About Sustainability

Nobody — not even "a musician of the future" — can live upon future products.

Le coût de production de l'ouvrier se réduit à peu près aux moyens d'entretien dont il a besoin pour vivre et propager sa race.

The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.