Quotes About Sustainability

If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

in Japan, buying a lot of stuff for your children is considered indulgent. Wastefulness was frowned upon. Shopping bags should be saved to reuse many times, not recycled after one purchase.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

We know everything about the Earth now, except how to keep her alive.

You have to keep on with a house, day after day, I think. Heating, cleaning, opening and closing windows, making sounds to fill the silence, cooking and washing up, laundering and polishing. As soon as you stop, there may as well never have been any life at all. A house dies as quickly as a body.

The business of procuring the necessities of life has been shifted from the wood lot, the garden, the kitchen and the family to the factory and the large-scale enterprise. In our case, we moved our center back to the land.

June was bread and nuts and berries.

having grown up with the mantra of, 'if you're cold, put another jumper on until your arms can no longer touch your sides',

At a time when most countries are reneging on their environmental promises, Danes are setting themselves tougher and tougher targets, and they're on course to meet them.

This is reflected in the fact that Ladakhis measure land according to how long it takes to plough it. The size of a plot is described as "one day," "two days," and so on.

The term "bioethics" was coined by Van Rensselaer Potter, who used it to describe his proposal that we need an ethic that can incorporate our obligations, not just to other humans, but to the biosphere as a whole.

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little

What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on?

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

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 himself 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 plow along in spite of every obstacle.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other....

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle