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Quotes About Sustainability

A vegan diet is one of the best things you can do for your health and the well being of our planet.
~ Robert Cheeke
The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.
~ Peter Scott
This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.
~ Lakshmi Mittal
Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.
~ Paul Gilding
If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.
~ Dalai Lama
If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.
~ Nhat Hanh
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.
~ Brooks Stevens
Going back to the paradigm we live in, the only way to do music is if I can sustain living off of it. If I can't live off of it, I'm not going to be able to make as much music.
~ Dan Deacon
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
~ Vandana Shiva
Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!
~ Chief Seattle
If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
~ Jack Herer
The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.
~ Gaylord Nelson
Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.
~ Carlo Petrini
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
~ William Ruckelshaus
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
~ Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
~ Aldo Leopold
In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.
~ David Suzuki
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
~ Janine Benyus
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
~ George Meredith
Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.
~ Neil Young