Quotes About Sustainability

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.

Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!

Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.