Quotes About Sustainability

Farming is a profession of hope

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.

Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope.

The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.

More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.

I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment.

I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.

We need to believe in a bright, compelling and sustainable future. Fear neither motivates people long-term nor brings out the best in them. Hope is a powerful motivator.

If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.

We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.

Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.

The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity...

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.