“Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.” PeopleIfsHumansUseAnimalMillionsCuttingMaterialsWasteAreasIncreasePlantBillionsForestsSoilAgricultureAcresManureCutting Down Author:Norman Borlaug
“An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.” IfsSaidUseShowsLyingDesireProduceIndustryOne DayWasteLaborPlantPhilosopherItalianEstatesCultivationNegligence Author:Samuel Johnson
“The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.” KnowsLeftWastePlantDirtyCoalMineralsPower Plants Author:Charles Duhigg
“A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world.” WorldOrderGrowthSupportLandFutureWasteFoundationPlantPreparedSoilContinentsAdapted Author:James Hutton
“You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.” YearsLawWiseTreeWastePlantSuitsPalmsLawsuitPalm Trees Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
“There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.” ScienceDiesTurnsNaturalAliveSourceWastePlantOrganismsLeafsConsumedEcosystemsRobinsHawksCaterpillars Author:G. Tyler Miller
“The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.” IfsDoeUseDreamEnergyBuildingInvolvedProveWasteApproachEconomicsPlantWaveDecadesNuclearFuelCheaperEmissionsCo2DemosUraniumCo2 Emissions Author:Bill Gates
“We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from the hundreds of millions of tons of municipal waste we produce, and the over 1 trillion gallons of sewage we produce.” IfsAmericaBitsMillionsProduceWastePlantAlcoholFuelGallonsSewage Author:Josh Tickell
“I was recruited to sort of be the doc to advocate for communities that were struggling with polluting incinerators, polluting coal plants, toxic waste sites, etc.” CommunityStruggleWastePlantEtcToxicSiteCoalToxic Waste Author:Jill Stein
“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.” YearsFunnyPoliticsOfficeWastePlantNuclearDesksNuclear PowerPower PlantsNuclear WasteNuclear Plants Author:Ronald Reagan
“Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.” ProblemCrazyCommunicationInternetCostWasteNewsPlantNewspapersInstantPrintTruckFractionsObsoleteOld YouElectronic CommunicationSolid WasteWaste Disposal Author:Ted Turner
“I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.” KnowsTodayActionHateEqualBasketballWastePlantSeedsReactionsSelfishnessThis DayHarvest Author:Og Mandino