Community Quote by Jay Blades

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we…

— Neil LaBute

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it…

— Julia Butterfly Hill

There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is…

— William Booth

Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of…

— Peter Senge

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific…

— William Kittredge

The threat of taking something away makes us appreciate it more.

— Simone Elkeles

In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives that we…

— Wendell Berry

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

— Satish Kumar

Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.

— Maria Dahvana Headley

We should make things that people don't want to throw away.

— Marcel Wanders

Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

— Bernie Sanders

As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling.…

— Gary Hamel