Quotes About Sustainability

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.

Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.

Where your food comes from is as important as how you smoke it.

I have the privilege to make ethical choices through my food each day. It's beyond nourishment to me. Each meal represents a lifestyle I passionately believe in.

If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.

I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?

We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.

You should ask where your food is coming from.

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Securing food is the basic task for all humans.

To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under threat.

As people move further away from a meat-based diet, I think the focus will shift to using grains as the central focus of our food supply.

Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.