Quotes on Sustainable Living

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.