Quotes about Sustainability
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.
— John Adams
Don't use all your health to chase after wealth, only to spend all your wealth later to get back your health.
— Joseph Prince
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.
— Wendell Berry
The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.
— Hillary Clinton
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.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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.
— Jane Goodall
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.
— Wendell Berry
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.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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.
— Alice Walker
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.
— Pope Benedict XVI
What I stand for is what I stand on.
— Wendell Berry
If it never rained, nothing would grow.
— Oprah Winfrey