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Quotes About Sustainability

God sends the cold according to the coat.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.
~ Pope Francis
Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.
~ Dave Barry
As if God's gonna let mankind destroy the planet with SUV's. It's silly, when you think about it.
~ E.W. Jackson
God is not going to send us a bill for solar energy, but the gas industry will.
~ Joy Baluch
Men can dig wells, but they can't create water.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
~ Gifford Pinchot
No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.
~ Howard Lyman
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
~ Jonas Salk
Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
~ Rick DeMarinis
Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it
~ M. Anthony Burns
The way to build a strong future is by both protecting the environment and creating good jobs.
~ Justin Trudeau
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
~ Elon Musk
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.
~ Dan Barber
Doing good is good for business.
~ Richard Branson
Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
~ Yolanda Adams
There's nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it's basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.
~ Tom Holt
There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.
~ Dan Barber
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
~ Alice Waters
We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.
~ Van Jones
Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.
~ Barack Obama
If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system?
~ Gary Paul Nabhan