Quotes About Sustainability

Of course they would come back, or others would come. That would happen no matter what. And Cory was right. The next thieves might not lose their guns and run away. So what? Should we lie in our beds and let them take all we had and hope they were content with stripping our gardens? How long does a thief stay content? And what's it like to starve?

Act as a kind of gang? No. Not quite a gang. We aren't gang types. I don't want gang types with their need to dominate, rob and terrorize. And yet we might have to dominate. We might have to rob to survive, and even terrorize to scare off or kill enemies. We'll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us. But we must have arable land, a dependable water supply, and enough freedom from attack to let us establish ourselves and grow.

It's about learning to live in partnership with one another in small communities, and at the same time, working out a sustainable partnership with our environment. It's about treating education and adaptability as the absolute essentials that they are.

It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out.

Food prices are insane, always going up, never down. Everyone complains about them.

Her main thoughts were still of the loathsome thing she had been tricked into doing—the consumption of animal milk.

cars powered by solar panels that fit into the trunk

Mensen denken dat ze intenser leven dan dieren, dan planten en zeker dan dingen. Dieren vermoeden dat ze intenser leven dan planten en dingen. Planten dromen dat ze intenser leven dan dingen. En dingen duren voort en in dat voortduren zit meer leven dan in al het andere.

A tree grows into the air because it grows out of the air. The bulk of the tree is not made from the soil beneath- indeed, the soil is in large part made by the tree. Both soil and tree are made from the sun and wind and rain. The land is just a place to stand.

It is obvious,' wrote Vogt, 'that fifty years hence the world cannot support three billion people at any but coolie standards

Farmed in the way they were farmed at the beginning of the twentieth century, today's 1.5 billion hectares of cropland would feed about three billion people eating a diet typical of 1900 (which is to say, an insufficient one)

Plain food is quite good enough for me.

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.

GLOBE initiative,

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

For a social enterprise to make an impact in the world, it needs a solid foundation based on sustainability.

No matter how good we get at solving environmental problems, it's not enough to create a truly sustainable economy unless we address the social challenges that imperil sustainability. Foremost among those challenges are inequality and poverty.

Social entrepreneurship is both a huge business opportunity but also an area where we really think we can deliver a lot of impact.

Social entrepreneurship is the road less traveled, but is one of the paths that can lead to the building of hybrid businesses with triple-bottom lines.

You can make a positive impact on society and the environment without sacrificing returns.

The condition of man is to till the soil; there is no other wholeness to his existence.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.