Quotes About Sustainability

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

Nature always levies her tribute.

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.