Quotes about Sustainability

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom (England) is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 millions took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man...

Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow.

Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you shade tomorrow.

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

To waste and destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.

The Forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal problems of the United States.

Well-managed companies are excellent at developing the sustaining technologies that improve the performance of their products in the ways that matter to their customers. This is because their management practices are biased toward: Listening to customers Investing aggressively in technologies that give those customers what they say they want Seeking higher margins Targeting larger markets rather than smaller ones

We have been taking into our mouths the bodies of dead birds.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth.

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.