Quotes About Sustainability

We can heal our planet, use cleaner and more efficient sources of energy while creating green jobs.

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.

Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.

As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.

The science is clear: to solve the climate crisis, we must protect our natural spaces.

I'm concerned that if we don't do more to protect our open spaces and reduce climate change, there will be devastating and lasting impacts on us and future generations.

We're on our own on spaceship Earth. So we have to solve our own problems.

One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.

Love that is fueled solely by feelings will suddenly find itself out of gas on a long road with no gas stations.

A relationship that is not actively nurtured dies out eventually, I told myself. Or does it?

Si quiere perdurar, el futuro líder industrial debe considerarse a sí mismo como un oficial cuasi-público, cuyo deber es manejar su empresa de tal manera que no atente contra los intereses de ningún individuo o grupo de individuos. La explotación de los trabajadores es cosa del pasado. Esperamos que el hombre que aspira al liderazgo en el campo de los negocios, la industria y el trabajo recuerde esto.

He does not understand the intangible force (and intelligence) wrapped up in the soil of the earth—the force which provides him with every morsel of food he eats, every article of clothing he wears, every dollar he carries in his pockets

Without this ability no leader can be powerful, and without power no leader can long endure.

The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

establishing the principle that you need to eat what you feed others.

I am renewable, not humanity or the ecosystem.

So the longer a technology lives, the longer it can be expected to live.

Things that have worked for a long time are preferable - they are more likely to have reached their ergodic states. At the worst, we don't know how long they'll last.

Um peru é alimentado durante mil dias por um açougueiro; cada dia

La razza umana, come ogni altro seme, non prospera rigogliosa, se trapiantata nello stesso terreno troppo a lungo sfruttato.

You will take no more than you need, and waste nothing. People will attempt to buy your friendship. They will lavish things upon you. Accept nothing but the barest of human necessities.

si un hombre no puede permitirse unos cuantos lujos es que no va a durar mucho tiempo.

Until Columbus, Indians were a keystone species in most of the hemisphere. Annually burning undergrowth, clearing and replanting forests, building canals and raising fields, hunting bison and netting salmon, growing maize, manioc, and the Eastern Agricultural Complex, Native Americans had been managing their environment for thousands of years.