Quotes About Sustainability

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.

... you might have been born to work the land. But according to the fate you've made for yourself, you were meant to save it.

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.

Agricultural oil production is, and always has been, about industry. It was never about health.

Food, like your money, should be working for you!

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.

Whenever you take on a project, there should be an exit policy. You cannot help people forever.

Wearing shoes, clothes, and other accessories made out of exotic skin is as cold-blooded as it gets.

We're driving the largest cleanup in history.