Quotes About Sustainability

A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit.

Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Only when the last fish is gone, the last river poisoned, the last tree cut down...will mankind realize they cannot eat money.

It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.

If the technology improves sufficiently, the environmental impact of the wealthiest Copy could end up being less than that of the most ascetic living human. Who'll have the high moral ground, then? We'll be the most ecologically sound people on the planet.

The frontier was closed, as Clare Boothe Luce wrote half a century earlier, resources were finite, and political systems should be based on an acceptance of those facts.

Let nature be in your yard.

No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.

Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.

Nothing ruins an ecosystem more than cementing it over. So what f*#!-ing difference does it make if you toss a butt on the ground?

When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you!

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

The key is simply to uncover value in waste.

Few coffee drinkers realise how little of the biomass generated at a coffee farm is consumed,or the wastefulness associated with their consumption habits.

Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth.

You don't find cows with names any more and there aren't any farmers like Mr. Dakin, who somehow scratched a living from a herd of six milkers plus a few calves, pigs and hens.

included the destruction of any property or other resources used to sustain Confederate armies as well as of those armies themselves.

The quality of a good life depends in large measure on how a man reacts to his natural environment, and we cannot destroy one without diminishing the other.

Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave fresh compost behind them; no one would be hungry; no one would be ill; all buildings would be earthquake-, bomb-, and flood-proof; and the world's entire economy would have collapsed and been replaced by one based on the value of chocolate.

Long as you see to your own needs first. You can't do real good in the world if you don't take care of yourself.