Quotes About Sustainability

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones, walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle.

I really must give up animal food. We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do... If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, its protest against cruelty is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us — in fact, any one who does not join in is dubbed a crank.

I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese.

Free Weeds U Pick 'Em

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can get rid of him on weekends.

Conserve Water, Drink Wine

All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

Every day is Earth Day.

Don't blow it — good planets are hard to find.

Keep the air. Nature says, 'Thou shalt walk, skate, swim, ride, run.' When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the sole leather has passed into the fibre of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes & hats & clothes you have worn out. He is the richest man who pays the largest debt to his shoemaker.

I ran out of toilet paper and started using lettuce leaves. Today was just the tip of the iceberg; tomorrow romaines to be seen.

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.

Can you do anything more fundamental than to raise food? Even Einstein has to eat.

Whoever makes a garden Has never worked alone; the rain has always found it, The sun has always known; The wind has blown across it And helped to scatter seeds; Whoever makes a garden Has all the help he needs.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Split your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

Business must be run at a profit…, else it will die. But when any one attempts to run a business solely for profit and thinks not at all of the service to the community, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

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

A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

Before us they planted, and now we eat what they have planted. We too must plant, so that those after us will likewise eat.

There aren't many clean places left in this dirty world of ours.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.