#sustain

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#community #environmentalism #gardening #green #japan

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it? ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #money

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#human #human society #into #itself #nature

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world. ↗

— Phil Bredesen

#depends #fiber #food #future #nation

We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#any #arizona #cannot #care #costs

You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#economic #economic growth #financial #financial stability #global

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#adequate #basic #condition #countries #developing

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#architecture #british #certainties #cling #completely

I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis. ↗

— John W. Snow

#basis #build #consensus #i #i think

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy. ↗

— John W. Snow

#adaptive #american #american economy #economic #economic policy