Quotes about Sustainability

As Sir Albert Howard, a British agrarian much admired by Berry, once put it in The Soil and Health: "The using up of fertility is a transfer of past capital and of future possibilities to enrich a dishonest present: it is banditry pure and simple.

My old friend, Gene Logsdon, who's a fine writer on agriculture, and lately a novelist, once asked an Amish factory owner, "Do you have a toxic effluent from your factory?" And the owner looked at him in horror. He said, "Our children play around this factory." If you had a local slaughterhouse patronized by local people, who could watch the slaughtering and butchering of their own animals, you wouldn't need the government to inspect for sanitation.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on

That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone—not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth.

Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.

The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.

If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.

Twopence a week, and jam every other day.

The world's poorest people use the cheapest available fuels - dung and twigs and even leaves.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.