Quotes about Sustainability

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

Milk production is one of India's great success stories.

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

Why do the health of the body and the health of the earth decline together?

Soon the majority of the world's people will be living in cities. We are now obliged to think of so many people demanding the means of life from the land, to which they will no longer have a practical connection, and of which they will have little knowledge. We are obliged also to think of the consequences of any attempt to meet this demand by large-scale, expensive, petroleum-dependent technological schemes that will ignore local conditions and local needs.

we must not speak or think of the land alone or of the people alone, but always and only of both together. If we want to save the land, we must save the people who belong to the land. If we want to save the people, we must save the land the people belong to.

Oikonomia is the science or art of efficiently producing, distributing, and maintaining concrete use values for the household and community over the long run. Chrematistics is the art of maximizing the accumulation by individuals of abstract exchange value in the form of money in the short run.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

Any abundance, in any amount, is illusory if it does not safeguard its producers.

The preserver of abundance is excellence.

The tractor's arrival had signaled, among other things, agriculture's shift from an almost exclusive dependence on free solar energy to a total dependence on costly fossil fuel.