Quotes About Sustainability

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.

Being a joyful vegan is the best way I know to contribute to the happiness of others, ultimately ensuring our own happiness.

Don't use all your health to chase after wealth, only to spend all your wealth later to get back your health.

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.

The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.

It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.

Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

Health is the core of human development