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  • We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable

  • 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.

    Nature   Men   Garden  
  • Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  • Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  • Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

    Nature   Men   Air  
    Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”
  • The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

    Men   Tree   Earth  
  • We must pay close attention to those with another imagination: an imagination outside of capitalism, as well as communism. We will soon have to admit that those people, like the millions of indigenous people fighting to prevent the takeover of their lands and the destruction of their environment - the people who still know the secrets of sustainable living - are not relics of the past, but the guides to our future.

    Fighting   Past   Land  
    "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.
  • I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  • Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

    Life   Courage   Time  
  • The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

    Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press
  • We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.

    Effort   Would Be   World  
  • People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

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

    1967 Search for the Real.
  • I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

    "Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.
  • It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

    Courage   Moving   Simple  
    "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.
  • There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

    "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.
  • Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

    Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”
  • I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

  • The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

    Jean Houston (2016). “Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on
  • To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.

    Source: www.soldefter.com
  • 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.

    Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press
  • Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

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

  • I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.

    Sweet   Eight   Years  
    Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 29, 2005.
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