Quotes About Sustainability

Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture's relationship to nature.

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?

Cada invento de la modernidad nos llega como sacralizado por la idea de que toda novedad supone un avance. Nadie duda que los autos de hoy son mejores que los autos de ayer: pocos piensan que la profileración de los autos está cambiando por un plato de orgullo y comodidad el oxígeno el planeta y el derecho a la capa de ozono

To claim the world as created is to claim God's care for it and our responsibility to care for it.

As God in Genesis 1 is no imperious warrior, so human beings are not conquerors of creation. The language of dominion lacks all sense of exploitation (1:26, 28). The hoarding of resources is implicitly forbidden in the account: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees are granted to animals and humans alike (1:30). Absent is any hint of the savage competition for resources. God's gift of sustenance is one of abundance, not scarcity, to be shared, not hoarded.

God's active delight in creation only heightens human agency in behalf of creation, for it all comes down to this: to feed the flame of biophilia, both God's and ours, we must preserve and sustain creation's biodiversity. If Leviathan falls, then so do we all.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

Trees are green gold

An honest, exceeding poor man.