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Quotes About Sustainability

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Waste today, want tomorrow.
~ Lauren Oliver
People will pay for something they like because they want to ensure its future.
~ Marco Arment
The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.
~ Muhammad Yunus
We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.
~ Muhammad Yunus
People around the world just want self-respect. They want to take care of themselves, they want to pay for their own bills, they want to take care of their families.
~ Rachel Roy
You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach.
~ Ramez Naam
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
~ Richard Lamm
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
~ Rachel Carson
Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.
~ Jill Stein
The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.
~ Anwar Sadat
The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.
~ Jacque Fresco
The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.
~ Ismail Serageldin
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
~ Rachel Carson
If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
~ Dennis Weaver
If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world.
~ Stanley Krippner
We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
~ Daniel Yergin
Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.
~ Dalai Lama
She would probably want me to make her mint and grass tea and remedies made out of various ditch weeds, naturally shed tree bark and sun-dried butterfly wings.
~ Susan Juby
a hunger that is more than simply material connects the human who feeds the chickens to the chickens that feed the humans.
~ Susan Merrill Squier
This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.
~ Suzan Colon
You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.
~ Suzanne Collins
Everyone had learned to despise waste. It was creeping back into fashion, though.
~ Suzanne Collins
A leather bag filled with food and a flask of hot tea.
~ Suzanne Collins