Quotes About Sustainability

You can eat a lot more vegetables than you can cotton candy. Bring on the veggies. Stay away from the fluffy carbs.

I eat mostly vegetables and fish.

At ABC Cocina and Kitchen, 90 percent of our produce and vegetables come from Union Square, and that's all from upstate New York farmers. We are simply committed to this idea of local, organic food.

I learned how to cook by making soups, so I was thinking of how to make the most eco-friendly and green way to make soup. Obviously, using water and vegetables from your garden is the most sustainable way.

I'm terrified about the world food shortages. Vegetables could quite easily become tomorrow's currency.

If our grazing land was allowed to revert to natural ecosystems, and the land currently used to grow feed for livestock was used for grains, beans, fruit, nuts and vegetables for humans, this switch would allow the UK to absorb an astonishing quantity of carbon.

In the countryside, planting flowers, vegetables and trees is not difficult.

What's not to aspire to about how to grow your own fruit and vegetables and plants, and then being creative?

If you grow the food you eat, it tastes better. Seasonal vegetables are grown at the right time, and you can make sure everything matures on the plant or on the tree. It's as fresh as you can get.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

I don't eat meat. I've been a vegetarian since 1971. I've gradually become increasingly vegan. I am largely vegan, but I'm a flexible vegan. I don't go to the supermarket and buy non-vegan stuff for myself. But when I'm traveling or going to other people's places, I will be quite happy to eat vegetarian rather than vegan.

If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that.

Being a vegetarian really saves lives.

I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.

I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry.

I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.

When I stopped eating meat, I noticed that it was easier for me to focus, and I was really proud of myself for being green also... I had a plethora of reasons for going vegetarian.

I pretty much eat all day to keep my strength up. I'm primarily a vegetarian who has an occasional side of fish.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.

I'm pretty much a vegetarian.

I'm vegetarian so eating right definitely gives me the energy you need.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.