What are some Sustainability quotes?

"Ending is better than mending." - Aldous Huxley "It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals." - Jonathan Safran Foer "To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?" - Derrick Jensen

32 Sustainability Quotes & Sayings with Wallpapers & Posters

Q: What is the best Sustainability quote?

"Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet." - Terence McKenna

Q: What are some short Sustainability quotes?

"People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it." - Ha-Joon Chang "We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls." - Derrick Jensen "We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will." - Jeffrey D. Sachs

Q: What is good short Sustainability quote?

"The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible." - Edward O. Wilson

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution.

Agriculture Quotes Eating Quotes Food Quotes Sustainability Quotes The One-Straw Revolution Quotes Values Quotes

Il ne peut pas y avoir un développement infini dans un univers fini.

Nature Quotes / Development Quotes Sustainability Quotes World Quotes

If we are looking for models of self-sustaining communities, we need look no further than an old-growth forest. Or the old-growth cultures they raised in symbiosis with them.

Sustainability Quotes

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Birds Quotes Conservation Quotes Environment Quotes Nests Quotes Ornithology Quotes Sustainability Quotes

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?

Future Quotes History Quotes Humanity Quotes / Earth Quotes Mankind Quotes Planet earth Quotes Resources Quotes Sustainability Quotes

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Civilization Quotes Humanity Quotes / Endgame Quotes Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization Quotes Sustainability Quotes

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them.At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?

Culture Quotes Ecology Quotes Economics Quotes Endgame Quotes Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization Quotes Environment Quotes

Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not ever....It will be far cheaper, and entail no risk to human life, to explore space with robots. The technology is already well along....the real thrill will be in learning in detail what is out there...It is an especially dangerous delusion if we see emigration into space as a solution to be taken when we have used up this planet....Earth, by the twenty-second century, can be turned, if we so wish, into a permanent paradise for human beings...

Technology Quotes / Emigration Quotes Future of man Quotes Robots Quotes Space exploration Quotes Space program Quotes Sustainability Quotes

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

21st century Quotes 21st century authors Quotes Ecology Quotes Preservation Quotes Sustainability Quotes

Feeling at home anywhere on earth, and a foreigner even in the country where I was born, I consider myself an earthling, a citizen of the world.I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity. I have lived through tremendous adventures and survived only because other people risked their lives for me. Realising how interconnected and interdependent we all are, I am neither shy or embarrassed when it is time for me lean on another to ask for help. And when I have the opportunity to help another, I view it as my duty and privilege.

Nature Quotes / Earth Quotes Spirituality Quotes Sustainability Quotes

I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity.

Nature Quotes / Biodiversity Quotes Sustainability Quotes

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

Technology Quotes / Earth Quotes Sustainability Quotes

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

Technology Quotes / Evolution Quotes Sustainability Quotes

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

Buy Quotes Consumerism Quotes Shopping Quotes Sustainability Quotes Trash Quotes

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

Agriculture Quotes Les Misérables Quotes Recycling Quotes Sustainability Quotes

Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers

Agribusiness Quotes Animal liberation Quotes Animal rights Quotes Animal welfare Quotes Sustainability Quotes

Some 3.6 million years ago, in what is now northern Tanzania, a volcano erupted, the resulting cloud of ash covering the surrounding savannahs. In 1979, the paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found in that ash footprints - the footprints, she believes, of an early hominid, perhaps an ancestor of all the people on the Earth today. And 380,000 kilometers away, in a flat dry plain that humans have in a moment of optimism called the Sea of Tranquility, there is another footprint, left by the first human to walk another world. We have come far in 3.6 million years, and in 4.6 billion and in 15 billion.For we are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

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To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals - obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the nondomestic creatures in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us.And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.

Agriculture Quotes Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food Quotes Farming Quotes Husbandry Quotes Land Quotes Sustainability Quotes

Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine)

Corporations Quotes Economics Quotes Lies Quotes Sustainability Quotes

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

Economics Quotes Ethics Quotes Sustainability Quotes

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

Future Quotes / Economics Quotes Sustainability Quotes

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

Fairness Quotes Humanity and society Quotes Life Quotes Sustainability Quotes Wealth Quotes

Go and be fish again.

Death Quotes Native american Quotes Sustainability Quotes

The more stitches, the less riches.

Brave New World Quotes Sustainability Quotes

Ending is better than mending.

Brave New World Quotes Sustainability Quotes

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

Vegan Quotes / Animal cruelty Quotes Animal rights Quotes Capitalism Quotes Eating Animals Quotes Ecology Quotes Sustainability Quotes

I was struck by the fact that for Joel abjuring agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is not so much a goal of his farming, as it so often is in organic agriculture, as it is an indication that his farm is functioning well. “In nature health is the default,” he pointed out. “Most of the time pests and disease are just nature’s way of telling the farmer he’s doing something wrong.

Farming Quotes Organic farming Quotes Pesticides Quotes Sustainability Quotes The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Quotes

When a livestock farmer is willing to “practice complexity”—to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to—he will find he has little need for machinery, fertilizer, and, most strikingly, chemicals. He finds he has no sanitation problem or any of the diseases that result from raising a single animal in a crowded monoculture and then feeding it things it wasn’t designed to eat. This is perhaps the greatest efficiency of a farm treated as a biological system: health.

Farming Quotes Organic farming Quotes Sustainability Quotes The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Quotes

. . . .how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world--and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.

Conscious eating Quotes Food Quotes Sustainability Quotes The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Quotes

When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, we’re being metaphorical obviously. I mean, plants do not have consciousness. But, this is a fault of our own vocabulary. We don’t have a very good vocabulary to describe what others species do to us, because we think we’re the only species that really does anything.

Health Quotes / Common sense Quotes Diet Quotes Green Quotes Nutrition Quotes Sustainability Quotes

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