Quotes About Sustainability

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

The equal and sustainable right of access to the Earth's bounty seems one of the most transcendent truths a human being can contemplate. Yet, this right is missing from the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The fact that this single principle is violated on an ongoing basis is quite possibly the root cause of many, if not most, other human rights violations.

The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation.

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.

And the new people just did not appreciate the importance of recycling,

It's a time of great paradox: we want to live forever but seem intent on executing the earth.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Puesto que la mayoría de la gente no tiene que enfrentarse a tales decisiones para ganarse el sustento, las visiones animistas del mundo siguen siendo más atrayentes que las nociones contrarias a ella, incluso en civilizaciones urbanas altamente tecnificadas.

ones. They also contain more nutrients and enzymes. If you have to choose one over the other, go for local. You'll save money, and enjoy more nutrients. Fruits and vegetables

For 7 pounds of food waste per week, I would start with 2 to 3 pounds (0.9 kg to 1.4 kg) of worms in a 6-cubic-foot worm bin.

Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use. Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources and not burn or bury them.

We have all heard of the bottom line, but have you heard of the triple bottom line? Abbreviated 3BL, it's also known as the three pillars or the three Ps: profit, people, and the planet. More companies are adopting the Zero Waste Business Principles developed by ZWIA, principles that encourage looking at resources in new ways.

one dollar for every ton of waste.

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

One should love animals. They are so tasty.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.

Love lasteth long as the money endureth

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were not one tree and not two.

The fight for our land is at the core of our existence, as it has been for the last two hundred years. Once the land is gone, then we are gone too.

Building a neighbourhood takes a very long time. It takes at least twenty years and then some. Like a garden, a neighbourhood must be tended regularly and by many people. There are seeds to be sown, little plants to water. And yes, every day there are weeds to be pulled, small problems to be solved before they overwhelm what is good. It is a humble task, and it is never over. There are days when you think the slightest storm could blow all this loveliness away.

We should have made do at home. We threw away so much food." Ricky says, "We ran out of ketchup," and the rest of them concur. No ketchup, no dinner.