Quotes about Sustainability
I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.
- Paul Allen
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
- Desmond Tutu
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.
- Victor Hugo
An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
- Wendell Berry
You can arrange your schedule so you have enough time to eat. The place and teh food should be appropriate. Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are. Tell me where you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
When you abstain from eating and drinking animal products, fewer animals are slaughtered, and you contribute less to climate degradation.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
True happiness does not reside in the ill-considered consumption of goods paid for by the suffering, famine, and death of others, but in a life enlightened by the feeling of a constant responsibility for one's neighbor.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp
- Herman Melville
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?
- Jeff Henderson
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
- Charles Spurgeon