Quotes about Sustainability
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.
Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.
— Pope Francis
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
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
— Alice Walker
A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.
— Jay Parini
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
— Wendell Berry
Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.
— Bill Johnson
A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.
— Pope Francis
Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
— Yolanda Adams