Quotes about Sustainability

For what would you use such a place, Paul Atreides?" "To make this planet a fit place for humans," Paul said. Perhaps that's why I help them, Kynes thought.

Dependency infrastructure is a term that includes all things necessary for a human population to survive at existing or increased numbers

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.

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities ... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

Don't use all your health to chase after wealth, only to spend all your wealth later to get back your health.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.