Quotes About Sustainability

The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.

You save most fuel by lifting and coasting in the heavy braking zones at the end of long straights into slow corners.

As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine.

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

Depending on which of the many hydrogeological zones of India you tap into, the water can either be easy to reach or incredibly difficult to suck out.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

I've visited Lincoln Park Zoo more times than I can count because I believe the more the public learns about our animals, plants and environment, the better equipped we are to play a leading role in protecting our planet.

We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.