Sustenance

Sustenance can refer to any means of subsistence or livelihood.

  • food
  • any subsistence economy: see list of subsistence techniques
    • hunting-gathering
    • animal husbandry
    • subsistence agriculture
  • Any agricultural and natural resources

Famous quotes containing the word sustenance:

    Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
    Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)

    The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
    Patricia Meyer Spacks (b. 1929)

    People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)