Quotes about Sustainability
The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground for them. Clearing ground an piling stones is little enough, but it is better than sitting in idleness.
— JM Coetzee
a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.
— JM Coetzee
My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.
— Margaret Atwood
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
— Margaret Mead
Surviving Is the only war we can afford.
— Margaret Atwood
The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
— Hildegard of Bingen
My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.
— Jane Goodall
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
— Desmond Tutu
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.
— Victor Hugo
An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
— Wendell Berry
You can arrange your schedule so you have enough time to eat. The place and teh food should be appropriate. Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are. Tell me where you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive.
— Thich Nhat Hanh