George Monbiot Quotes

If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed ourselves, while changing the way the remaining land is farmed. Instead, governments almost everywhere pour public money into planetary destruction.

The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.

I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.

Places that have become agricultural deserts, trashed by giant corporations, could be reforested, drawing carbon dioxide from the air on a vast scale. The ecosystems of land and sea could recover, not just in pockets but across great tracts of the planet.

We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.

Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing climate change - this means reducing emissions, adapting to impacts, and enhancing and improving carbon sinks.

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

Three acres and a cow.

No man should be allowed to own any land he does not use.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

Some environmentalists demands are counter productive. Avoiding pesticides for example means farming more land less efficiently, which leads to higher prices, more hunger, more disease …, and less biodiversity.

Attention! Land Thieves and Natural Resources Grabbers …. Under [Theodore] Roosevelt any doubt about the power of the Chief Executive to make withdrawals of public land was resolved in favor of the people.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.