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Quotes About Sustainability

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.
~ Unknown
We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less
~ Nicolas Sarkozy
The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren't they?" his mother went on. "We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they're the very thing that saves us.
~ Patrick Ness
I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.
~ Patti Davis
His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
How do we make the world work?
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization.
~ Ronald Reagan
I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.
~ Roscoe Bartlett
Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.
~ Simon Mainwaring
We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.
~ Sylvia Earle
There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.
~ Terry Gross
I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.
~ Thomas Menino
At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.
~ Tom Vilsack
I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.
~ Van Jones
To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.
~ Van Jones
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
~ Wendell Berry
Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
God gave you the sea, but you still have to fish for yourself.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Resources don't last forever. They must either be USED, MANAGED or they will be WASTED.
~ Unknown
Your job cannot sustain you, only your calling can
~ Sunday Adelaja