Quotes About Sustainability

Strive for the Long Now

To me, grass is simply a transitional phase for turning sunlight into milk.

Research has shown that 63 percent of Americans will pay as much as 36 percent more to patronize a business that is environmentally friendly.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

If Earth's children ever forget who provides for them, we may wake up someday and find we don't have a home.

Roe Deer, when your spirit returns to the Great Earth Mother, thank Her for giving us one of your kind, that we may eat," Jondalar said quietly.

A few animals may eat nuts or fruits and others may browse leaves, or even twig tips from a tree, but bark and wood are largely inedible, and grow back slowly once destroyed. The same energy and soil nutrients put into an equal weight of grass will feed many, many more, and the grass will constantly renew itself.

I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.

The point about food is that a lot of it used to be left-overs and recycling.

People in Ember rarely threw anything away. They made the best possible use of what they had.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

I don't do fad things or diets - they don't work.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

Forestry is the work of nation builders.

The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

Seventh Generation's work with Carol Sanford made me a better values-based leader.

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.