Favorite sustainability quote

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Favorite sustainability quote

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1MaureenRoy
Abr 3, 2013, 4:20 pm

The American poet Wallace Stevens died in the 1950s, decades before sustainability was a global issue, but I've always loved this quote from one of his poems - I've had it posted on my refrigerator for years:

"...not to have is the beginning of desire."

2justjukka
Abr 5, 2013, 6:06 pm

Paul Newman:  “...the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster.”

Ha-Joon Chang:  “People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.”

Susan Freinkel:  “Reducing the human footprint means addressing fundamentally unsustainable habits of food consumption, such as expecting strawberries in the depths of winter or buying of seafood that are being fished to the brink of extinction.”

3juniperSun
mayo 5, 2013, 12:11 am

I've got this on my monitor: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Michael Pollan

4John5918
Ene 4, 2015, 2:22 am

"People ask me what to do and I always say, 'Blow the bridges.'"

Thomas Berry, in Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation Between Humans and the Earth

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