Resource Use Quotes

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

I used practically all the money I had available.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

They use everything about the hog except the squeal.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.

Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

The hardest problem of all is to appreciate the facts that the poor nations are - quite reasonably - not going to forgo their development, and that they can only afford to develop by consuming fossil fuels.

Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use.

Human use of one resource runs squarely against human use of another resource.

The used key is always bright.

The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for us. There is no doubt that God wants us to enjoy it and even use its resources to optimize a good life for ourselves. But the ultimate purpose of creation is worship. Nature and all living things were created to glorify God.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

Behind every morsel of bread, fruits, or meat is a large amount of transformed fossil fuels.

I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.