Quotes about Sustainability

Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.

Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

If it never rained, nothing would grow.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.