269 Quotes About Sustainability

Each minute wasted with a shark is a missed opportunity to enjoy being with a Dolphin

I am not an optimist; I am afraid that I won't live long enough to escape my bondage to the machines.

The plow is the main cause of muddy streams and rivers in the springtime. And a muddy stream means that we are dissipating our greatest natural resource—our topsoil.

Everyone has the power to make a difference, to themselves and others, and to our world.

Most Americans and Canadians (& earthlings) can save thousands annually with smarter energy choices. That's a lot of bucket list vacations, while providing far better for your own future and living a richer life today.

When reeling a fish in to not simply feel “the power of wildness intimately but the same time recognize the right of that wildness to continue”.

Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.

The crucial fact about sustainability is that it is not a micro phenomenon: there can be no such thing as a “sustainable” house, office building, or household appliance, for the same reason that there can be no such thing as a one-person democracy or a single-company economy.

If we are looking for models of self-sustaining communities, we need look no further than an old-growth forest. Or the old-growth cultures they raised in symbiosis with them.