Quotes About Sustainability

woodland, cranberry bogs, hunting grounds, fishing spots, clay deposits, berry bushes, and medicinal plants were available to everyone. The people sometimes gathered as a community to harvest and sell these resources in bulk to fund public services like poor relief. One Massachusetts official, assuming that jealousy and selfishness were naturally the dominant features of all human societies, marveled that these places were "almost realizing the wildest dreams of the communists."48

One survival technique is a lack of wastefulness; the African puts everything to use.

Love me less,but love me for a long time.

even the most zealous vegans can weed their garden and wipe out untold millions of germs with disinfectants ("green" ones, of course) without suffering a single pang of guilt.

blackmail never ended. it only bought time. but time was in limited supply. it would last only as long as his money did.

It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants

Give children a chance to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

when we consider the purchase of anything, to ask ourselves, both as producers and consumers: Is this purchase necessary? Do I really need a new outfit to do yoga? Can I do well enough with something I already have? And will it do more than one thing?

The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to "have it all," the sooner it will die.

Anyone who thinks you can have infinite growth on a finite planet is either a madman or an economist. —Kenneth Boulding

Buy less; buy better. Make fewer styles; design better.

Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

If we could all come to see our consumer products as tools that help us to live our real lives—rather than as substitutes and surrogates for that life—we would need many fewer products to be happy.

You climb the mountains or visit the wilderness but leave no trace of having been there.

I represent a state that accounts for most of the food production in India.

Me personally, I like to wear as few artificially made products as possible. That stuff affects us, one way or another.

I make food as affordable as possible.

Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.

I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.

Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.

Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.

My aim is to make Andhra Pradesh a drought-proof state.

I believe the American people care a lot about the environment.

I do not want an animal to die for me.