Quotes about Sustainability

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

A person can live a day without silver or gold, but coffee? No thanks.

Our problems are not ours alone — we share them with future generations — and we have a moral obligation to hand our nation over to our children and grandchildren in good shape.

I've always said we need to build resilience locally.

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.