Air Quote by Jean Hegland

Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.

— George Monbiot

We are living and consuming more than we need, and this impacts our survival.

— Raheem Devaughn

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves.

— Barack Obama

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

— George Perkins Marsh

Life is like a roll of tissue paper. We never know how much we've wasted 'til we get to the end. Hope that when…

— Nishan Panwar

There is nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating

— Will Rogers

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of…

— Jay Inslee

America has been living on the back of the whole world! If you take how much energy we consume, like, 20 percent of the…

— Raoul Peck

In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of…

— Nina Fedoroff

Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume the natural…

— Sylvia Earle

If we could stop wasting food, imagine how many more people we could feed!

— Dana Cowin

“Humans began to show their pathogenic potential toward the planet during the 1950s, ravenously devouring natural resources and discarding waste into the environment with…

— Joseph C. Jenkins