Quotes about Sustainability

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.

The emotionally unhealthy leader is someone who operates in a continuous state of emotional and spiritual deficit, lacking emotional maturity and a "being with God" sufficient to sustain their "doing for God." When

For me, the real goal is how do we make vibrant and vital faith communities that are sustainable for the long run.

This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.

The money I was getting paid isn't going to do anything to help my family grow. It's not going to give us a better life when it's all over.

I don't have a sugar daddy, I've never had a sugar daddy.

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.

there has been evident in our progressive world an increasing disregard and even disdain for those ritual forms that once brought forth, and up to now have sustained, this infinitely rich and fruitfully developing civilization. There is a ridiculous nature-boy sentimentalism that with increasing force is taking over. Its beginnings date back to the eighteenth century of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with its artificial back-to-nature movements and conceptions of the Noble Savage.