Quotes about Sustainability

Human beings were made to interact with growing things, not to be born, live, and die in the midst of concrete set in the middle of polluted air!

Keep America Beautiful.

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.

We come from the earth. We return to the earth. And in between we garden.

Save a tree. Eat a beaver.

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.

Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.

Life improves the capacity to sustain life [...] Life makes needed nutrients more readily available. It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay from organism to organism.