Quotes About Sustainability

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Give a cat a fish and you make a friend forever.

Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person how to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

Give a man a fish — he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to start a commercial fishing business — he will deplete the seas, overfish the oceans, wipe out entire ecosystems, and devastate the planet.

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth .

It was no longer a matter of growing a fat crop, only of growing enough for the seed not to die out. There will be another year, he consoled himself, another summer in which to try again.

The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground for them. Clearing ground an piling stones is little enough, but it is better than sitting in idleness.

Fezes são um bom fertilizante. -Então vamos espalhar você na terra pra ver o que acontece.

Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

All I want from this book is a living, enough money to make a living, buy a farm and some land, work it, write some more, travel a little, and so on.

We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

To truly rid the oceans of plastic, what we need to do is two things: One, we need to clean up the legacy pollution, the stuff that has been accumulating for decades and doesn't go away by itself. But, two, we need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place.

For animals, for humans, for the planet: It makes sense to curb meat consumption, and that is something vegans and omnivores agree on. Roughly two-thirds of Americans report reducing their meat consumption, and many are sensitive to the way their diet might be damaging the planet.

I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's warmed by the sun.

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.

A multi-tier social protection system must be based on a modest basic income so as to enable the precariat to build lives involving a balance of different types of work, not just labour in jobs.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.

Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

Clean energy is the ultimate growth strategy for our economy - one that would add millions more good-paying jobs right here in the United States.

I feel it's my responsibility to be able to take care of my family by living off the land. That's the ultimate goal for a man.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.