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Quotes About Sustainability

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
~ Jonathon Porritt
There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Peace will come when people have food.
~ Momofuku Ando
Everybody can make choices that will make peace with the natural world.
~ Sylvia Earle
The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.
~ Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.
~ Dennis Weaver
When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.
~ Dennis Kucinich
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
~ James Norman Hall
I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be.
~ A. Zampolli
Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations.
~ Sylvia Dolson, Joy of Bears
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.
~ Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
~ Ernst F. Schumacher
No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.
~ Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
~ Peter Watts, Blindsight
I find it's a very positive movement and something you can do every day in little ways. Our philosophy on the website (www.greenissexy.org) is not to have green guilt, do what you can.
~ Rachel McAdams
If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.
~ John Robbins
We are in the process of finding out what filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of satellites does to all life on Earth.
~ Steven Magee
Stocks may come and stocks may go, but food goes on forever.
~ Beatrice Fairfax
Do your thing, without harming anything.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
I do not want to grow for the sake of growth. Never will I be blind by greed.
~ Muhammed Muazu Mukaddas