Quotes About Sustainability

We won't go far. We'll use our own bows. You can have the meat for the kitchen," adds Gale.

Pero ¿destruirlo? No. (...)No destruyes lo que quieres adquirir en el futuro.

As if in the end, it will be the question of whether a baker or a hunter will extend my longevity the most.

So rather than focus on the coal mining itself, we're going to focus on the coal,

Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.

There is no conflict in looking good. You buy things you need, and then you do something good for society.

I really love secondhand clothes. It's fun to turn them into something new.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value.

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

Sorry, I don't eat any fast food. I believe in eating healthy organic foods for a better lifestyle.

I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.

Nobody in the developing world is going to take, as an answer to their aspirations, the developed world's reply: 'Sorry, you can't; we've already used it all up.' To earn the right to look the developing world in the eye and start this conversation, we need a reassessment of how we live and what we want.

I quite like the element of charity shops not being sorted out.

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.

Tinned food can be cheaper than buying fresh stuff. Things like tinned carrots, tinned potatoes, mushy peas make a good base for a soup.

I do not live off canned soup.

Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy.

Kids today are really so alienated from the source of food. If they are going to nourish themselves properly, if they are going to safeguard this environment we have and the economy that goes with it and world hunger that goes with it, they need to know about food.

The more nature and stuff, the better. The source of our power comes from nature, and the closer to nature you are, the more you can power up.

Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.