Quotes About Sustainability

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone—not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth.

Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.

Buying ahead of requirements does not pay. Any wins are negated later down the line.

The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.

If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.

Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force into obligation. Otherwise, the energies of the rulers will be exhausted in maintaining their dominance at the expense of their ability to shape the future, which is the ultimate task of statesmanship. Empires persist if repression gives way to consensus.

Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force into obligation. Otherwise, the energies of the rulers will be exhausted in maintaining their dominance at the expense of their ability to shape the future, which is the ultimate task of statesmanship. Empires persist if repression gives way to consensus. So

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.

No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical principle

How many different plant-lives man destroys to support his own existence - I thought!

Influence in society, however, is capital which has to be economized if it is to last. Prince

Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized if it is to last.

Influence in society, however, is capital which has to be economized if it is to last.

Superior execution is vital to sustaining the success initiated by an innovative service concept. An innovator's service quality is usually more difficult to imitate than its service concept. This is because quality service comes from inspired leadership throughout an organization, a customer-minded corporate culture, excellent service-system design, the effective use of information and technology, and other factors that develop slowly in a company, if at all.

Water is the driver of Nature

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.