Quotes About Sustainability

When we measure corporate performances, we don't include our impacts on nature and what our business costs society. That has to stop.

If you can't save the forest, plant a tree. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.

If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

Hunting, works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth. A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal.

The fact is that we live on a rapidly aging planet, and we will soon have but two choices if our species is to survive: engineer on a planetary scale or get off.

What is at stake is a faith that can actually remain sustainable and meaningful because it listens to the challenges of the present as we follow the God who is always out ahead of us, ready to surprise us.

Let's see how long the rich can eat their money for

Economics is dead, and true equality will rise out of the ashes. We've turned our back on materialism, rejected it completely. It has no purpose anymore. Now we can live as we please, develop our minds not our finances.

We should throw away our arcologies and our starships, and live like the Lord intended

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

As far as I'm concerned, you could send all the cars in the world through a compactor and shoot them out through the stratosphere and put them in orbit around Mars. Except, of course, the taxis that have to be at my disposal when I need them.

20.500 kycklingar, sa hon. Om dagen. För att föda London. 5.800 grisar. 1.520 nötkreatur. 6.000 får. Enligt The Meat and Livestock Commission. Staden intar dagligen två miljoner kilo animaliskt protein. Man skulle kunna betrakta London som en monstruös maskin för bearbetning av husdjur.

but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.

But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

And when everyone was full, He said to His disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over, so that nothing will be wasted.”