Quotes About Sustainability

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature

I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart.

Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs

So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.

The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.

You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare

It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild.

The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development