Quotes About Sustainability

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Useful lessons learnt today may not necessarily be of use to you today, save them for later. There always comes a time where you won't be able to eat and you'll live from what you had last night!

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

Perhaps the most important realization of all, although it is an uncomfortable one, is that the social ills attendant upon mechanized farming are the fault of the whole of society, and not only of the growers. The growers, after all, are trying to provide us with the two things we now demand: food which costs an unprecedentedly small proportion of our income, and the availability of the full range of all the varieties of food at all seasons of the year.

I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.

If you do just one thing—make one conscious choice—that can change the world, go organic. Buy organic food. Stop using chemicals and start supporting organic farmers. No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future.

To wear the arctic foxyou have to kill it.

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.

Short-term can be terminal.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

The solutions are here. They have always been here. Food does matter!

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

The food you eat today is walking and talking tomorrow.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.