Quotes about Sustainability
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike
No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.
- Anonymous
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
- Henry Ford
Life supports what supports more of life
- Tony Robbins
It was no longer a matter of growing a fat crop, only of growing enough for the seed not to die out. There will be another year, he consoled himself, another summer in which to try again.
- JM Coetzee
The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground for them. Clearing ground an piling stones is little enough, but it is better than sitting in idleness.
- JM Coetzee
a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.
- JM Coetzee
My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.
- Margaret Atwood
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
- Margaret Mead
Surviving Is the only war we can afford.
- Margaret Atwood
The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
- Hildegard of Bingen
My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.
- Jane Goodall