Quotes about Sustainability
At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.
- Patrick Lencioni
In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?
- Paul Allen
When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.
- Brigham Young
I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Aldous Huxley
Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
- Jane Goodall
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
- Hildegard of Bingen
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
- Wendell Berry
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
- Thomas Jefferson