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Quotes about Sustainability

God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.
— Hugh Ross
sustainable' justice Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã¢â‚¬œ that is, a corporate habit of relation that allows a community to believe that the security of its members does not depend entirely on contingent relations of power at any given moment.
— Rowan Williams
Christians ought to be passionately and sacrificially concerned about the environment, for the very simple reason that we are called to be faithful to the future, even
— Rowan Williams
A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
— Margaret Atwood
The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.
— Margaret Atwood
but love was undependable, it came and then it went; so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you made sure you were fed enough and not damaged by too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor money value and having one of these things was better than having nothing.
— Margaret Atwood
Nothing should be carelessly thrown away, not even wine from sinful places. There was no such thing as garbage, trash, or dirt, only matter that hadn't been put to a proper use.
— Margaret Atwood
Canada is built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
The best marketers are farmers, not hunters. Plant, tend, plow, fertilize, weed, repeat. Let someone else race around after shiny objects.
— Seth Godin
The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
— George Bernard Shaw
there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.
— George Eliot