"The Ecology of Commerce" Quotes

We are all engaged in the business of agriculture, for we are dependent upon its products for our very existence.

Business and environmentalism are not adversaries; they are both critical components of civilization.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

The natural world is not separate from us, it is within us. It is our sustenance, our refuge, our teacher.

The single most important indicator of the health of an economy is the state of its natural resources.

We must recognize that the economy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around.

The real cost of living is the destruction of nature, not the accumulation of things.

Our economic system operates on the assumption that resources are infinite, when in fact they are finite.

There is no business to be done on a dead planet.

Nature does not negotiate, and it does not compromise. It simply adapts and evolves.