David Suzuki Quotes

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
David Suzuki

Car, Everyone, Sit

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
David Suzuki

Home, Future, Human

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
David Suzuki

Education, Science, Important

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.
David Suzuki

Money, Keep, Alive

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.
David Suzuki

Work, Food, Difficult

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
David Suzuki

Work, Medical, Diet

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
David Suzuki

Time, Good, Battle

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
David Suzuki

Time, Spiritual, Personal

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.
David Suzuki

Live, Important, Sometimes

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
David Suzuki

Nature, Parents, Play

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
David Suzuki

Brain, Old, Used

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.
David Suzuki

Hope, Live, Friendly

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
David Suzuki

Education, Best, May

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.
David Suzuki

Bad, Plastic, Bags

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.
David Suzuki

Business, Help, May

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
David Suzuki

Nature, Society, Children

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
David Suzuki

Future, Real, Free

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.
David Suzuki

Great, Made, Hours

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.
David Suzuki

Nature, Leaving, Impossible

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.
David Suzuki

Political, Often, Economic

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.
David Suzuki

Energy, Water, Priorities

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.
David Suzuki

Money, Positive, Hurt

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.
David Suzuki

Change, Health, Care

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.
David Suzuki

Nothing, Real, Started

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
David Suzuki

Mind, Energy, Days

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: March 24, 1936

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