Quotes About Sustainability

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Once you carry your own water you will know the value of every drop.

The first thing they need is a fuel that doesn't pollute. The oil companies are insisting that everyone burn chemical-fire fuels that smoke and get soot and poison gases into the atmosphere. Until they have and are using a better energy source, it's useless to do anything else to salvage the planet.

Hate could do that, too - live off nothing but itself - but not forever.

What do you think I live on, rainwater and daydreams?

I say stick with Mother Nature as much as possible.

She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

Because we're the best: we use all organic.

Would it really be so bad if you slowed your life down even a teensy bit? If you took charge of the ingredients of your food instead of letting corporations stuff you and your family, like baby birds, full of sugar, corn products, chemicals, and meat from really, really unhappy animals?

If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough.

Living simply has resulted in us becoming more aware of the environment and the impact we have on it.

Our trees in our forests need protection to ensure that those cut are replanted and cutting is done wisely.

What a man eats, he should be willing to kill. It's not absolutely necessary that he do so, but he should at least be willing to face the reality of it. To eat a chicken only if it comes from the market is the height of cowardice and denial. Someone still had to kill it.

People get by in all kinds of situations. All over the world people are getting by on almost nothing. Losing things they think they can't live without. Or at least that they think they can't be happy without. But then it's pretty hard to be happy . . . you know . . . if it's dependent on some material possession not going away. I don't

What a man eats, he should be willing to kill. It's not absolutely necessary that he do so, but he should at least be willing to face the reality of it.

Then, yes. It's civilized. What a man eats, he should be willing to kill. It's not absolutely necessary that he do so, but he should at least be willing to face the reality of it. To eat a chicken only if it comes from the market is the height of cowardice and denial. Someone still had to kill it.

whatever happens, I'll be okay. People get by in all kinds of situations. All over the world people are getting by on almost nothing. Losing things they think they can't live without. Or at least that they think they can't be happy without. But then it's pretty hard to be happy . . . you know . . . if it's dependent on some material possession not going away. I don't want to live like that.

What a man eats, he should be willing to kill.

It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?

Seems like someone should have thought of a rule that goes Do not Fuck Your Only Planet to Death Under Any Circumstances . Seems like that should have been Rule Number One.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.