Quotes About Sustainability

I do wonder whether there will come a time when we can no longer afford our wastefulness

Just think what this land would raise with plenty of water! Why, it will be a frigging garden!

Then crop failure, drought, and flood were no longer little deaths within life, but simple losses of money. And all their love was thinned with money, and all their fierceness dribbled away in interest until they were no longer farmers at all, but little shopkeepers of crops, little manufacturers who must sell before they can make.

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.

Well, we all got to make a livin'.'' "Yeah,'' Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else.

It was the same noble impulse that stripped the forests of the West and right now is pumping water out of California's earth faster than it can rain back in. When the desert comes, people will be sad;

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will be a distant memory, long since processed into siding, two-by-fours, perhaps even the paper that has been recycled into the pages of this book.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

Earth is a family business.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of oil available globally, I think, has already peaked.

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

The easiest way to make ends meet is to get off your own.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.