Sustaining Life Quotes:

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

- Wislawa Szymborska

source: Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Temperature, Failing, Sustaining Life

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

- Robert Pollin

source: Robert Pollin (2015). “Greening the Global Economy”, p.121, MIT Press

topic: Oil, Yield, Coal, Sustaining Life

The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in the matter if we believe the research produced by climate scientists. The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

- Robert Pollin

topic: Believe, Yield, Oil, Sustaining Life, Cutbacks

I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.

- Hildegard of Bingen

topic: Stars, Moon, Flames, Airy, Sustaining Life

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Spiritual, World, Ends, Spiritual Truth, Sustaining Life

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

- Horace Greeley

topic: Mean, Cutting, Winter, Sustaining, Sustaining Life

Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself.  The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

- Helena Norberg-Hodge

topic: Healing, Keys, Diversity, Sustaining, Sustaining Life