Quotes about Sustainability

Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

I think it's important that folks feel useful and know the value of working. We do no good to any man by giving him everything." "I agree. I saw the damage done

every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business.

Do not try to make the road shorter, but travel it in such a way that every action leaves the land more fertile and the landscape more beautiful.

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.

If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations.

Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.