Quotes About Sustainability

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Mother Nature (aka the natural world before humans imposed fear on her) provides for every single need.

And even if the jig is up, even if it is really game over, what better time to sing about the earth than when it is critically, even fatally, wounded at our hands.

There's so many people that don't really recognize a vegetable unless it's in a bit of plastic with an instruction packet on the top.

No Russians tell me they cheat to create drama. They say they long for heart-stopping, tear-off-your-clothes romance. I hear about a man who left an entire lilac tree on the doorstep of the woman he was courting. Given the grim realities of life in Russia, this fairy-tale passion might be sustainable only in extramarital affairs.

Breastfeeding is a mother's gift to herself, her baby and the earth.

business exist not only to make profit, but also to consider theimpacts and consequences of their business activities as there are increasingpressure from the society about the environmental changes.

Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldnt spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. We went down that path once, and it brought us to ruin.

Here is a summertime truth: abundance is a communal act, the joint creation of an incredibly complex ecology in which each part functions on behalf of the whole and, in return, is sustained by the whole. Community not only creates abundance – community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature,the human world might be transformed

Organically grown fruits and vegetables are grown with all natural methods on organic farms and are far superior nutritionally. The big commercial farms use chemical fertilizers, pesticides and GMO seeds.

If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.

Perhaps animals are smarter than men, he thought, taking only what they need to live today leaving something for tomorrow.

Even the hated wolf kills only for food and only for immediate need. Maybe it is man who will eventually perish as he destroys the land and all that it offers, taking the animals down with him.

The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren't they?" his mother went on. "We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they're the very thing that saves us.

The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren't they? We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they're the very thing that saves us.

People began to live ON the earth rather than WITHIN it

Its like seed grain, at the end of a long winter if you have some of the grain left, you can use ir for seed, you have control over your life, you can use that grain and make plan for the future, but if you have no grain for seed in the spring you are helpless, no amount of hard work or good intentions will make crops grow if you don't have the seed to start with".

Era fuerte como una bacteria resistente, y frugal como la garrapata, que se inmoviliza en un árbol y vive de una minúscula gota de sangre que chupó años atrás.

The aim of forest garden design is to make the relationships as co-operative as possible, while acknowledging that very few plants will yield quite as much as they would if they were living alone. It is the cumulative yield of all the plants living on the same piece of land that makes forest gardens productive, not the high yield of individuals.

an architect should not take a position of throw more hardware at it... that will fix all the problems.

These models will recognize the inter-connectedness of all things, turning away from the mindless materialism and consumerism that has destroyed the ecological capital on which we rely.

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

honey-hunting bees.