Sustainable Living Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Carl Sagan

  Fate, Rivers, Air

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• 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.

  Arundhati Roy

  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.

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

  Wayne Visser

  Fashionable, Convenient, Profitable

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• 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.

  Arundhati Roy

  Past, Thinking, Practice

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• 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.

  Jason Scott

  Sweet, Eight, Years

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

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• I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

  Edward Burtynsky

  Kids, Ideas, Competition

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