Salt Lake City Quotes

What people need to do is conserve what they have, .. There is a supply out there; we just need to conserve it. Going up and loading up your tank is not going to do that much. It's just going to deplete the supply, and the problem will eventually catch up to you.

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

Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

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.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

We've got to take care of the resources we have on this planet, because there's no resupply possible.

Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.

While we advertise tourism, we should also educate our people in keeping a close vigil on what is happening as the side effect of tourism.

At an ever accelerating rate we are now squandering the capital of metallic ores and fossil fuels accumulated in the earth’s crust during hundreds of millions of years. How long can this spending spree go on?

The United States has consumed in the last 50 years more natural resources than the rest of the entire human race for all of history.

We must subject the machine—technology—to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.

The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can't have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more efficient.

Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility.

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.

Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.

Among the most important lessons to be taken from the history of oil is not taking essentials for granted. Conserve oil, but also conserve water. If our Hummers are a red flag in oil, maybe our Jacuzzis are the same for water.

We need to throw away less, recycle a lot more and turn much of the rest into energy.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.