Quotes About Resources

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

To maintain our own economy, we are disturbing the nature's economy

Unsustainable energy consumption has humanity locked into a death spiral with nature.

The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.