Quotes about Sustainability

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.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.