Quotes About Sustainability

You can have more children only according to your ability to feed them.

We humans must revere the earth, for it is our well-being. Always the earth grants us what we need. If we treat the earth with kindness, it will treat us kindly. If we give our belief to the earth, it will believe in us. There is no better blessing than to be believed in.

Chief Gray of the Osage Nation said, "Today, our neighbors are beginning to understand that when tribes are strong, everyone benefits. A rising tide lifts all boats. This has been done, not on the white man's terms, but on our own. It's not revenge, it's rebirth, and as our elders say, it is good." This

the writing is writ large on the wall: Mother Earth will continue to punish us with floods, famines, and fires until we learn to behave as custodians of the natural world rather than as its conquerors.

I adopted a highway. I'm trying to teach it to pick up after itself.

What if we could learn to see the world from the perspective of other species, both plant and animal, and understand that they, too, deserve the chance to make a life here? ---- The Humane Gardener: Nurturing A Backyard Habitat For Wildlife

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

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It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet.

Nicholas Stern, formerly chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, and principal author of the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change (commissioned by U.K. prime minister Gordon Brown), has called climate change "the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen."55 No wonder the defenders of free market capitalism are worried.

their scientific colleagues were increasingly finding evidence that capitalism was failing in a crucial respect: it was failing to protect the natural environment upon which all life—free or not—ultimately depends.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting

Only when the last tree is cut, only when the last river is polluted, only when the last fish is caught, will they realize that you can't eat money.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Forests are the elixir of life

faced with the cold realities of trying to feed an out-of-control population, a great many of Earth's dreams had been abandoned.

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

Probably one of those who ostentatiously carried plastic bags but never stooped to using one.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

have a large, steady, dependable income, consistent with integrity and mutual benefit

Por abundantes que fueran los peces en el mar, se necesitaba una red o un sedal y un anzuelo, como mínimo.

The HPI measures two things: the well-being of nations and the sustainability of nations.

by blindly pursuing economic growth, we are creating a whole set of social and environmental issues that will undermine the potential happiness and well-being of future generations. It is time to