Quotes About Sustainability

What we are investing in, from a generation standpoint, are renewables and natural gas.

There's so many ways of making product design easier, more efficient, quicker. People are now taking DNA from cows and growing leather. The implications of that, in what it has from a grain standpoint, are enormous.

I became intrigued with the whole development sector, going into a community, building it up, coming up with a plan from an architectural standpoint, and bringing it to fruition, especially if you're able to make the community a better place in the process.

I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.

Yes, Brazil, like the whole world, stands to lose a lot in a climate-altered world. But it's also one of the major forces determining our future: It's the home of most of the Amazon rain forest.

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.