Sustainable Quotes

“Gardening is easier and quicker when spacings are correct for different plants.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Feed the soil, not your plants.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Keep an open mind and try some new methods.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The ultimate goal of the resistance movement is a planet not just living, but in recovery, growing more alive and more diverse year after year. A planet on which humans live in equitable and sustainable communities without exploiting the planet or each other.

Goal 1 : To disrupt and dismantle industrial civilization; to thereby remove the ability of the powerful to exploit the marginalized and destroy the planet.

Goal 2 : To defend and rebuild just, sustainable, and autonomous human communities, and, as part of that, to assist in the recovery of the land.”
― Aric McBay, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

“The German birds didn't taste as good as their French cousins, nor did the frozen Dutch chickens we bought in the local supermarkets. The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“Well, it's been obvious for centuries that capitalism is going to self-destruct: that's just inherent in the logic of system―because to the extent that a system is capitalist, that means maximizing short-term profit and not being concerned with long-term effects. In fact, the motto of capitalism was, "private vices, public benefits"―somehow it's gonna work out. Well, it doesn't work out, and it's never going to work out: if you're maximizing short-term profits without concern for the long-term effects, you are going to destroy the environment, for one thing. I mean, you can pretend up to a certain point that the world has infinite resources and that it's an infinite wastebasket―but at some point you're going to run into the reality, which is that that isn't true.
Well, we're running into that reality now―and it's very profound. Take something like combustion: anything you burn, no matter what it is, is increasing the greenhouse effect―and this was known to scientists decades ago, they knew exactly what was happening. But in a capitalist system, you don't care about long-term effects like that, what you have to care about is tomorrow's profits. So the greenhouse effect has been building for years, and there's no known technological fix on the horizon―there may not be any answer to this, it could be so serious that there's no remedy. That's possible, and then human beings will turn out to have been a lethal mutation, which maybe destroys a lot of life with us. Or it could be that there's some way of fixing it, or some ameliorating way―nobody knows.”
― Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

“I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.”
― Jesse Jackson

“There is a deeper point to be made here, however, having to do with the specificity of everything. One of the great failings of our culture is the nearly universal belief that there can be anything universal. We as a culture take the same approach to living in Phoenix as in Seattle as in Miami, to the detriment of all these landscapes. We turn wild trees to standardized two-by-fours. We turn living fish into fish sticks. But every fish is different from every other fish. Every student is different from every other student. Every place is different from every other place. If we are ever to hope to begin to live sustainably in place (which is the only way to live sustainably), we will have to remember specificity is everything.”
― Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution

“Culture is like a forest. The seeds are your core values. Once they take root as behaviours, they can grow into trees, populating your cultural forest. Bad seeds produce unhealthy forests, infertile, and plagued by infestations. Good seeds produce a healthy forest and ecosystems that support life. One is sustainable, the other is simply not.”
― Diane Kalen-Sukra, Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

“Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

“Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life.”
― Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig

“On what reasonable grounds would sincere, informed environmentalists refuse to join animal advocates in a campaign to protect increasingly threatened fish populations from the snapping teeth of humanity?”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Seed sovereignty should not be sacrificed at the altar of food security”
― Royal Raj S

“I want to rescue knowledge work from its increasingly untenable freneticism and rebuild it into something more sustainable and humane.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“Gardening and making your own soap and home-birthing your babies are fine, but these are inherently limited actions. If we want to see genuine food safety, if we want to see sustainable products, if we want to see a better women's health system, and if we want these things for everyone, not just the privileged few with the time and education to DIY it, then we need large social changes.”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity

“At a time when we need an urgent national conversation about how schools and curriculum should address the environmental crisis, we're being told that the problems we need to focus on are teacher incompetence, government monopoly, and market competition. The reform agenda reflects the same private interests that are moving to shrink public space-interests that have no desire to raise questions that might encourage students to think critically about the roots of the environmental crisis, or to examine society's unsustainable distribution of wealth and power.”
― Bill Bigelow

“One of sustainable approaches to sufficient supply of food is sustainable agricultural practices.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“One of the sustainable approaches to food security is sustainable agricultural practices.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The sure way of sustainable management of the ecosystem is to make human kind environmental stewards.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Our current economic system has two fundamental weaknesses: it’s based on unlimited growth on a finite planet, and it benefits a small number of people, not everyone.”
― Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

“Sustainability is not about why, but how; not when, but now.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“The sustainability is a costly affair, but act before it becomes unaffordable.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“EnVision is your path to sustainable, nourishing, aligned profitability because it's based on your core values of service, happiness, balance, and growth”
― Michelle Jacobik, The Path To Profits: An Entrepreneur's Guide To Having It All... And Still Having A Life!

“The ideal world; equitable, sustainable, resilient.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Responsible Financing

“I always say that the Earth is not our home, because the term "home" has the connotation of permanent ownership. Rather, it is a dormitory where we need to learn to live together by sharing with each other and caring for one another.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“We are deluged by information regarding our destruction of the world and hear almost nothing about how to nurture it. It is no sur- prise then that environmentalism becomes synonymous with dire predictions and powerless feelings. Our natural inclination to do right by the world is stifled, breeding despair when it should be inspiring action. The participatory role of people in the well-being of the land has been lost, our reciprocal relations reduced to a Keep Out sign.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

“AI telah mengalahkan pikiran manusia. Itu fakta. Satu-satunya cara agar peradaban manusia tetap dapat eksis dan berkelanjutan adalah melalui asimiliasi manusia dengan AI, robotik dan nanoteknologi. Tak ada cara lain.”
― Toba Beta