Quotes About Sustainability

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

Let nature be in your yard.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Out of the long list of nature's gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side