Quotes About Sustainability

Quelle planète laisserons-nous à nos enfants, et quels enfants laisserons-nous à la planète. What earth will we leave to our children, and what children will we leave to earth.

In no case does the energy required for synthesis appear to be provided by an influx of fresh capital, but by expenditure.

She lived with the doctor on Via Po, in a gloomy, dark apartment, barely warmed in winter by just a small Franklin stove, and she no longer threw out anything, because everything might eventually come in handy: not even the cheese rinds or the foil on chocolates, with which she made silver balls to be sent to missions to "free a little black boy.

The earth's vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants the the earth, between plants and other plants, between plants and animals. Sometimes we have no choice but to disturb these relationships, but we should do so thoughtfully, with full awareness that what we do may have consequences remote in time and place.

Incidents like the eastern Illinois spraying raise a question that is not 9nly scientific but moral. The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Such plants are weeds only to those who make a business of selling and applying chemicals.

They should not be called 'insecticides', but 'biocides'.

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road--the one less traveled by--offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

So said the old man: As a boy I gathered fruit from the trees planted by my forebears. Am I not, then, required to plant the trees that will sustain my grandchildren?

If our vision of the way to have better food is to have less processing, more natural food, more home cooking, and more local food, we will cut ourselves off from the most likely hope for better food in the future.

We not-much-of-anything types don't worry about the cost of leaving a light on unnecessarily.

What sucks the worst is…this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

Goal 6: That each child be competent to provide for his or her own family's financial needs within reasonable hours

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

I didn't grow up around a lot of souped-up automobiles. I love my Prius.

We go through life, we need food, we need water and we need doctors. You have those three things, you're ahead of the game.

There is good business doing good.

You cannot develop a country on donations.

There is still too much pressure on short-termism in terms of the drivers of success.

There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.

If somebody makes a really wonderful, ecological car, I'm down, no matter where it comes from.

We want to help countries ultimately to become self-sustaining. That has to come through economic development.