Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

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

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

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

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.

I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really lives his lives, and is he very prudent in the way he lives. He's cautious. He's not like an Al Gore that flies around in a private jet and burns 20,000 gallons a day on his jet.

Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse the trash and clippings I produce for mulch. I reuse the rain that falls on my roof, and I reuse the sun that shines on my house for energy. I guess you could call me a strategic opportunist as much as an environmentalist.

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

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.