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adjective
Sustainable  adj.  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.






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"Sustainable" Quotes from Famous Books



... consider modern "scientific" farming practices to be a similar situation. Instead of imitating nature's complex stability, industrial farmers use force, attempting to bend an unnaturally simplified ecosystem to their will. As a result, most agricultural districts are losing soil at a non-sustainable rate and produce food of lowered nutritional content, resulting in decreasing health for all the life forms eating the production of our farms. ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... makes some men talk like good women, an' some women talk like bad men. It is a livin' f'r orators an' th' death iv bookkeepers. It doesn't sustain life, but, whin taken hot with wather, a lump iv sugar, a piece iv lemon peel, and just th' dustin' iv a nutmeg-grater, it makes life sustainable." ...
— Mr. Dooley's Philosophy • Finley Peter Dunne



Words linked to "Sustainable" :   sustainability



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