Quotes about Sustainability

The world's poorest people use the cheapest available fuels - dung and twigs and even leaves.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

We let individualism prevail in the twentieth century, and frankly, we have made a mess of it. We must begin anew for the twenty-first century; we need a new, different direction. We can no longer continue destroying ourselves and the planet we live on. With determination we can abandon the cult of individualism and the self, and act and live in harmony, in the spirit of interbeing.

Ironically, it seems that it is by the means of seemingly perfunctory daily rituals and routines that we enhance the personal relationships that nourish and sustain us.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'