Quotes About Sustainability

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Gerard Manley Hopkins Inversnaid

Trees for Life.

Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against "intensive farming," and the harm it does to us and our world. But the problem is not the adjective. It's the noun.

Here they had been for twenty-one years merely using water that continued to flow, and yet they had never given any real consideration to where the water came from.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night,

It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!

Under ordinary competitive conditions, any long and serious maladjustment between supply and demand cannot last.

Their church was small, just her and Joe and God. They tithed by working to preserve the earth He'd created and the animals that called it home. Only one word was in their gospel, and they relayed it

They tithed by working to preserve the earth He'd created and the animals that called it home. Only one word was in their gospel, and they relayed it by action, not preaching. That word was love.

It has always amazed me that these people who are trying to learn and understand the world around us before it is bulldozed out of existence, have to work on piteously low salaries or on minuscule and precarious grants, while they do one of the most important jobs in the world. For it is only by learning how the planet works that we will see what we are doing wrong and have a chance to save it and ourselves as well.

recommend these two approaches to start: Concentrate on whole foods, not processed ones. The number one thing you can do to help control your weight is concentrate on whole foods—that is, foods that appear as they come from the earth. So, yes, that means fish, beans, veggies. That doesn't mean things

Our planet cannot continue to be a life-giving environment unless human beings quickly become much more responsible stewards of the created world.

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.