Quotes on Environmental Sustainability

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.