Quotes About Sustainability

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.

Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity.

What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.

Even as a waste disposal site, the world is finite.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!

Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?

Wisdom of the Ages: "Soylent Green" No matter how many times I see that movie, I still get a hankerin' for a Big Mac.

Don't waste water on washing your shirt, use photoshop!

The cost of living is going up while the chances of living are going down.

...as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he'll have to teach himself.

...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

Networking is not about hunting. It is about farming. It's about cultivating relationships. Don't engage in 'premature solicitation'. You'll be a better networker if you remember that.

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.