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Quotes About Sustainability

They'll be okay. They're looked after. The flowers have water.
~ Matt Haig
Think of how detached we are from nature. How we have to do so much to it before we can bottle it and put the name 'wild' on it.
~ Matt Haig
I've ridden a bike now for a hundred years and I think they are one of the truly great human inventions.
~ Matt Haig
En 1990, Colombia fue clasificado como el país con la cuarta mayor riqueza hídrica del mundo, si bien la mala gestión ambiental desde entonces lo ha visto caer al vigésimo cuarto lugar.
~ Unknown
Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.
~ Matthew Fox
Whatever we have in the world, we must see to it that it be honestly come by, for we cannot be truly rich, nor long rich, with that which is not. The
~ Matthew Henry
The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. —GANDHI T
~ Matthieu Ricard
Les déchets animaux polluent les eaux plus que toutes les autres sources industrielles combinées
~ Matthieu Ricard
Es urgente pues detener este «ecocidio» de los océanos, uno de los ecosistemas más preciados y más útiles para el equilibrio del planeta, que no obstante ha sido rebajado al rango de «recurso económico» o de basurero.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Les polluants organiques persistants s'accumulent en effet dans les tissus graisseux des animaux et entrent ainsi dans l'alimentation humaine. Ces polluants organiques persistants se retrouvent également dans la chair des poissons d'élevage, lesquels sont nourris d'aliments concentrés fabriqués notamment à partir de protéines animales.
~ Matthieu Ricard
le monde pourrait nourrir 1,5 milliard de pauvres en leur consacrant le milliard de tonnes de céréales qui nourrit le bétail destiné à l'abattage.
~ Matthieu Ricard
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
~ Maurice Strong
One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.
~ Maurice Strong
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
~ Maurice Strong
Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.
~ Maurice Strong
The middle class tend to be interested in spending money on leisure and entertainment. They leave behind much bigger carbon and digital footprints
~ Unknown
My mother has told me once and for all the useful parts. She will add nothing unless powered by necessity, a riverbank that guides her life. She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the field and eats food left for the gods.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
~ Maya Lin
Self-preservation is as important as generosity. Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.
~ Meg Wolitzer
The earth giveth, and the earth taketh away.
~ Megan Chance
Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don't ever eat your bread without remembering the hardworking peasants!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan