Earth Quote by Alexander McQueen

Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into…

— Barry Commoner

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be…

— David Korten

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

— Barry Commoner

Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.

— Frans van Houten

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave.…

— William McDonough

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

— Samuel Johnson

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.

— Anonymous

Everything has the energy of its making inside it.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.

— Lewis Thomas

“Plants both synthesize food and respire… People respire only…Common to all life processes i the formation of wastes...”

— Lou Voorhees

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth,…

— Dixie Lee Ray

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation...even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

— Leonardo Da Vinci