Quotes About Sustainability

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate change and failure to take the actions that are necessary.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

We need bees to survive.

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Patience is the key to every success in life.

We must learn to appreciate life. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Through the gift of this natural world, we are not meant to take advantage and destroy, but we are invited to use and replenish.

They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save.

Only love can last.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Live simply that others may simply live.

Tu déchires des nuages et tu les envoies en direction du vent. Et alors? Il est des nuages très fertiles et cela requiert un sol approprié.

I baptize you in the name of the conservation of energy. What comes around goes around.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful

Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior's part of its plan.

The fact that as the population of any species grows, the pressure on its natural resources increases and competition becomes more severe.

For billions of years, evolution has been driven by competition caused by the simple fact that, left unchecked, all living things can reproduce faster than their environment can sustain

The only place where abundance is warranted is in nature. A person who wastes is a person who insults the gods. In light of the waste encountered in the modern world, one wonders if anyone knows that there is a world outside of this abundance where people are aware of priorities other than materialism.

They taught us to manage money and how to et a good price for our eggs, chickens or pigs. We used to know how to do that -- we weren't dumb; but since we never had any surplus, we had no money to manage. The only money we ever saw went right past us; no sooner had we earned a few cents than they were spent on aspirin . . . those kinds of things.