Quotes About Sustainability

Three meals a day are a highly advanced institution. Savages gorge themselves or fast."2 The wilder tribes among the American Indians considered it weak-kneed and unseemly to preserve food for the next day.3 The natives of Australia are incapable of any labor whose reward is not immediate; every Hottentot is a gentleman of leisure; and with the Bushmen of Africa it is always "either a feast or a famine.

Si los conocimientos agrícolas existentes se aplicasen en todas partes, el planeta podría alimentar al doble de su población actual.

Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.

We must redefine the American dream so that it does not rest on the assumption that we can throw old places away and create new ones in the middle of nowhere.

A permanently successful peace-economy cannot be a simple pleasure-economy.

Marvin found that German clergymen had taken to wearing clerical collars made of paper. They cost eight cents, can be worn inside out the second day, and are then thrown away….

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

If you plan for a year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate your children.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.

97.5% of the world's water is salinated. Of the 2.5% that's fresh, over 99% is trapped in glaciers and snowfields. In total, only .025% of the water on the globe is actually drinkable by humans and animals.

The more instinctive a behavior becomes, the less self-control from the Rider it requires, and thus the more sustainable it becomes.

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What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.

The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

In a world filled with greed and fear, good food connects us to the earth and our Creator.

In the last analysis, it all boils down to a population problem. Most of the ills covered in chapter 12 flow, directly or indirectly, from the fact that there are too many of us now on Earth

Belgium, a pioneer in the development of nuclear power, on which it depends for more than 50 percent of its electricity), the decision has been made to abandon nuclear power, even though no adequate alternatives