Ending is better than mending.
Aldous HuxleyTags: sustainability
The more stitches, the less riches.
Aldous HuxleyTags: sustainability
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
Albert A. BartlettTags: science life humanity sustainability exponential-growth sustainable-development
Live at home
George Washington CarverTags: gardening sustainability
We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
Paul NewmanTags: inspirational buddhism environment sustainability farmer sainthood
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?
Tags: environment economics ecology culture sustainability
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.
George Washington CarverTags: food work sustainability
Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine)
Wendell BerryTags: lies economics sustainability corporations
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
Terence McKennaTags: earth western-civilization sustainability gun
Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.
Steven M. GreerTags: technology evolution sustainability
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