Rohan Marley Quotes

I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country.

From the very beginning at Marley Coffee, we have appreciated the importance of growing our beans sustainably.

My niche will be to support the environment through the growth of organic agriculture.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world. To go back even further, I got interested in gardens because I was interested in nature and wilderness and Thoreau and Emerson.

Organic is loaded with a sense of rightness, with a set of rules. I would much rather someone bought food that was local and sustainable but not organic than bought organic food that had to be shipped across the world.

Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing.

I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.

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

It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.

Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that's locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It's a vote for the future, for animal welfare, for the environment, for your children's children.

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

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.

Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon.

Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.

We have to be responsible towards the environment when we celebrate our festivals.

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