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“Under capital’s growth imperative, there is no horizon â€� no future point at which economists and politicians say we will have enough money or enough stuff. There is no end, in the double sense of the term: no maturity and no purpose. The unquestioned assumption is that growth can and should carry on for ever, for its own sake. It is astonishing, when you think about it, that the dominant belief in economics holds that no matter how rich a country has become, their GDP should keep rising, year after year, with no identifiable end point.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.”
― Anne Marie Bonneau, The Zero-Waste Chef: Plant-Forward Recipes and Tips for a Sustainable Kitchen and Planet: A Cookbook

“Who is already grounded needs no boat to reach land.”
― Monaristw

“The thing about growth is that it sounds so good. It’s a powerful metaphor that’s rooted deeply in our understanding of natural processes: children grow, crops growâ€� and so too the economy should grow. But this framing plays on a false analogy. The natural process of growth is always finite.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“The problem with economic growth isn’t just that we might run out of resources at some point. The problem is that it progressively degrades the integrity of ecosystems.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“Our Earth is a plentiful place â€� it generates an abundance of forests and fish and crops every year. It is also remarkably resilient, as it not only reproduces these things as we use them, it absorbs and processes our waste too: our emissions, our chemical run-off, and so on. But in order for the planet to maintain these capacities, we can only take as much as its ecosystems can regenerate, and pollute no more than the atmosphere and rivers and soil can safely absorb. If we overshoot these boundaries, ecosystems begin to break down and the web of life begins to unravel. That’s what’s happening right now.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“When we hear the phrase ‘clean energyâ€� it normally calls to mind happy, innocent images of warm sunshine and fresh wind. But while sunshine and wind are obviously clean, the infrastructure we need to capture it is not. Far from it. The transition to renewables is going to require a dramatic increase in the extraction of metals and rare-earth minerals, with real ecological and social costs.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“Words such as kindness, wellness, green, united, world, peace, have all been hijacked by bad people. If you hear these words, run for the hills.”
― Jack Freestone

“Nature is the greatest example of love, wellness, and relationship, in visible form”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Fruit, are Nature's Flowers.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“A red light is less about our need to stop. Rather, it’s more about the fact that someone at that intersection has a green one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When the crab arrives, I realize I've barely given any thought to Ann and her ministrations. To my surprise she has added a few finishing touches of her own. The crab sits snugly in its pink shell, beside a neat mound of delicately green mayonnaise. How has she colored it green?
"This could be made into a curry," pronounces Mr. Arnott. "In Madras, curried sea oysters are considered the pinnacle of fine food. Anything can be curried... fish, fowl, even eggs."
"Eggs?" Again, he has intrigued me.
"Indeed eggs," he says. "Hard-boiled and placed in a hot curried gravy, they are quite delicious."
I taste the mayonnaise, trying to fathom how Ann has greened it. Simultaneously I try to commit Mr. Arnott's recipe for curried eggs to memory, while also checking the seasoning in the crab.
"Do you think the crab would benefit from a little more lemon juice?" I ask. "Or perhaps chili vinegar should have been used."
"It is certainly fresh." He slowly savors the crab upon his tongue. "It tastes of the sea.”
― Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

“If you want your children to be loving and compassionate, allow them to appreciate the earth and care for the living beings around them.”
― Shree Shambav, Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories

“Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020).”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“While climate change threatens our environment on the one hand, and fossil fuel depletion threatens our economic system on the other, solar energy holds out the promise of protecting both of them.”
― Mahmood H. Shubbak, Forging Ahead: Technology Development & Emerging Economies

“Ignorance is bliss. But one day, people will realise the sheer scale of destruction humans do on Earth. We can all do our part to improve what we can.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“Why ways to brew coffee, when tea may be healthier.”
― Monaristw

“The Green Party was not available in Tucson, so I voted Democrat because Black Lives Matter.”
― Steven Magee

“I set out a loaf of zucchini-pandan bread, the green coloring from the extract adding an interesting tinge to the crumb. The grassy, floral taste complemented the neutral flavor of the zucchini well, and the turbinado sugar I'd sprinkled on top added a delicious crunch.”
― Mia P. Manansala, Homicide and Halo-Halo

“With its green curtains and green carpet, with its green valences round its green arm-chairs, with its green tassels round its vase-bearing brackets, this spacious chamber, designed to pleasure their dead mother before either of them were born, was like a mausoleum to Ruth and Rodney.”
― John Cowper Powys, Weymouth Sands

“Dining tables were dressed in hunter-green velvet linens. Royal Staffordshire Tonquin Brown dinner plates sat on top of hammered copper chargers. Cut-crystal drinkware and hammered copper tumblers glinted in the candlelight and strands of twinkle lights. Vintage brass and low copper vessels overflowed with garden roses, tulips, and amaryllis in various shades of cream, peach, and burnt orange along with lush greenery. Berries and russet feathers peeked out every so often, and antlers interspersed at odd angles. Reminiscent of an enchanted woodland from a C.S. Lewis novel, this was by far my favorite design Cedric had ever created.”
― Mary Hollis Huddleston, Without a Hitch

“Quick, what was my favorite thing to cook at the Green Onion that I can make in this time limit?
The Green Onion's menu had been plant-focused, not much red meat, with lots of fresh Pacific Northwest seafood. Which was good, because I didn't have a ton of time to spend roasting a full rack of lamb or simmering a brisket. A salad was too simple, falafel was too complicated, and----
Scallops. My mind whirred, gears clicking into place. Scallops cooked quickly. The Green Onion had a scallop special that people really loved. Seared scallops with a green, herby broth and tempura-fried vegetables. I could put my own spin on it and do a fried artichoke instead of the tempura, and make the broth more of a buttery green sauce. Yes. That would be delicious.”
― Amanda Elliot, Sadie on a Plate

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― Thom Ericson

“Green is more valuable and beautiful, and a positive person notices it everywhere. You will continue to grow as long as your thoughts are green.”
― Shree Shambav, Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories

“Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.”
― Mary Webb

“The most disappointing of the jobs I had was the ‘Greenâ€� solar photovoltaic industry. I had three jobs in the field. Two of them had a constant pressure to work very long hours. I remember my neighbor commenting that he would see me leave for work in the dark and come home in the dark! One of the jobs had completely overloaded me with the work of many workers and refused my daily requests for more staff! I left the ‘Greenâ€� industry and have never pursued another job in it.”
― Steven Magee

“We are drowning in garbage. That's how we come to the fore.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“I was pleasantly surprised in that it was actually one of my favorite dishes of the night; the octopus had been charred perfectly so that the outside was crisp and smoky and the inside was tender, and it had been paired with a green salsa that made me want to sing with its freshness and vibrancy.”
― Amanda Elliot, Best Served Hot

“I have mastered the art of the very low electricity bill!”
― Steven Magee

“The dress was perfect, every inch of it, covering me in emerald green drapery that flowed like the boughs of a weeping willow, the bodice embellished with crushed pearls that made a whispery sound when I moved.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries