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Quotes About Sustainability

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics
~ Tony Juniper
The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.
~ Thomas Friedman
Nature supports right action.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
~ Stewart Udall
We understand that we must make peace with nature - that our lives depend on it.
~ Sylvia Earle
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes
~ Tim Benton
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going
~ Tony Juniper
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
~ Wendell Berry
It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
~ Werner Herzog
This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.
~ William McDonough
Nature does require her times of preservation.
~ William Shakespeare
In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.
~ Zhou Shengxian
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
~ Alice Walker
God created man to care for the earth.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To maintain our own economy, we are disturbing the nature's economy
~ Siddharth Seksaria
Environment isn't asking us to conserve her for her but for our future generations.
~ Mohith Agadi
I have a conflict of interest in environmental conservation.
~ Mohith Agadi
The sap is nourish from the root.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The beautiful green earth.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Without the earth, where can humankind live?
~ Lailah Gifty Akita