Quotes About Sustainability

Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.

a culture is no better than its woods

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.