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Quotes About Sustainability

Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.
~ Jill Stein
If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.
~ Matt Corby
Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels.
~ Thomas Ferguson
The issue of carbon is one area where we really need to work together and if people don't have the technology they need, that technology needs to be made available and affordable.
~ Wangari Maathai
First of all, farmers should work with universities and research institutions in the country, and hopefully with the government.
~ Wangari Maathai
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
~ Vandana Shiva
It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!
~ Tippi Hedren
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.
~ Matt Taibbi
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
~ Bob Goff
The final solution for unemployment is work.
~ Calvin Coolidge
The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.
~ Douglas Conant
We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
~ Bill Vaughan
The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.
~ Dorothy Richardson
We were created to take care of, steward the land. That is mankind's purpose on earth, to steward and take care of the land as it feeds off of it.
~ Wes Studi
We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment.
~ Scott Pruitt
We are blessed with great national resources, and we should be good stewards of those.
~ Scott Pruitt
What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.
~ Scott Pruitt
Good stewardship of the environment and our natural resources is necessary.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.
~ Scott Pruitt
We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy at the same time.
~ Scott Pruitt