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

  Teacher, Teaching, Temperature

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

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Robert Pollin

  Yield, Oil, Coal

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Believe, Yield, Oil

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Stars, Moon, Flames

  270 Copy quote

• 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

  Spiritual, World, Ends

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “The New Revelations: A Conversation with God”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Mean, Cutting, Winter

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Healing, Keys, Diversity

  8 Copy quote