269 Quotes About Sustainability
- Author Paul Newman
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We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
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- Author Ha-Joon Chang
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People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.
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- Author Peter Singer
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Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers
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- Author Derrick Jensen
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We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.
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- Author George Washington Carver
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Live at home
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- Author Edward O. Wilson
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The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.
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- Author Aldous Huxley
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The more stitches, the less riches.
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- Author Victor Hugo
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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- Author Steven M. Greer
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Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.
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