Lidia Bastianich Quotes

I can never waste water. If I cannot drink it I will use it to water the plants and I will never waste food. If it is inedible it goes on the compost heap.

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

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

It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange.

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

We have already broken the link between food production and population. This will soon be complete.

I'm obsessed with not chucking away food. I'm lucky enough to have a gardener, so we grow sweetcorn, tomatoes, beetroots, cabbages, pumpkins, lettuce. I'm trying to get into blanching it and freezing so I don't have to buy veg over the winter, but then you need loads of freezers, and that's not ideal.

I'm not a gourmet. I just like the planet.

In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

We depend on nature to survive... it is our responsibility also to take care of our home, planet Earth.

We survived on natural resources, so we should take care of the earth. When I leave home, I do things like switching off the heat and lights.

I don't like wasting food.

God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.

Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.

Good stewardship of the environment and our natural resources is necessary.

If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.

People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.

You should know what is taken out of the ecosystem in order to give you a moment's sustenance.