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, Arguing

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

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

Great, Hours, Confident

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

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

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

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

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
David Suzuki

Health, Children, Economic

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

Future, Real, Free

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

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

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

Political, Often, Economic

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

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
David Suzuki

Time, Another, Making

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.
David Suzuki

Human, Earth, Water

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
David Suzuki

Through, Necessary, Price

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.
David Suzuki

Water, Lack, Clean

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
David Suzuki

Knowledge, Political, Real

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.
David Suzuki

Through, Eyes, Again

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: March 24, 1936

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