Quotes About Resources

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system.

What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

We are not here in this world just to exist and consume resources, we are here to understand and accept life, that life is too beautiful to waste.

We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time, those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them. By the time we've found them, we already been defeated by adversity.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.