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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #sustainability




People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.


Ha-Joon Chang


#green #sustainability #change

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?


Derrick Jensen


#ecology #economics #environment #sustainability #dreams

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals - obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the nondomestic creatures in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.


Wendell Berry


#farming #husbandry #land #sustainability #art

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #japan #sustainability #art

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #gardening #green #japan

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?


Andy Couturier


#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #money

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.


John Anderson


#both #chance #confidence #dealing #economic

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.


Paul Hawken


#defy #first #forces #least #natural

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.


Criss Jami


#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure






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