Quotes About Sustainability

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

"Industrial organic" might sound like an oxymoron, but it is a reality.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

You are what what you eat eats.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

It was the right thing to do, but it could not be sustained. Not here. The

Food is about community. It's about the earth and really taking care of the earth.

Letting rich countries buy their way out of meaningful changes in their own wasteful habits reinforces a bad attitude—that nature is a dumping ground for those who can afford it.

Dung is more valuable than any precious metal. You cannot grow food in gold.

Many of the more worrying impacts of climate change are really symptoms of mismanagement and underdevelopment.

Human civilization would have to occupy one hundred to one thousand times more space if it were to rely solely on renewables

the trouble with renewables isn't fundamentally technical—it's natural.

PETA doesn't want to talk about farming. They want to end farming. They have absolutely no idea how the world actually works.

First, nothing is as permanent as a temporary fix. Most of these remained in place for the next year or two.

Irónicamente, el modo en que hemos organizado el mundo para mejorar la eficiencia, el desarrollo económico y nuestro estilo de vida - los esfuerzos generalmente útiles para transformar el planeta en una aldea global- nos ha hecho más susceptibles que en 1918 a los efectos de las enfermedades infecciosas.

No creo equivocarme al comparar el sueño con el amor; no creo engañarme al comparar el amor con una especie de ensueño de dos, cierto que junto con instantes de ensueño individual, de pequeños juegos de conjunciones y cruces de caminos, pero que permiten, con todo, transformar nuestra existencia terrenal en un momento soportable, que incluso es, en verdad, el único medio de soportarla.

il y a dans les villes deux fonctions, l'une primaire d'habitation, l'autre secondaire de circulation, et on voit aujourd'hui partout l'habitation méprisée, sacrifiée à la circulation, de telle sorte que nos villes, privées d'arbres, de fontaines, de marchés, de berges, pour être de plus en plus «circulables», deviennent de moins en moins habitables.

If it works, don't fix it; do more of it.

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph.