Quotes About Sustainability

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

We should tax every company's carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of every building and home, to incentivize people to reduce their carbon footprint.

I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.