David Suzuki Quotes

• The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Often, Act

• The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades – and evidence is mounting that what’s happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Still, Weather, Far

• The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Real, Global, Major

• Think about a seed. Once it lands, it’s stuck. It can’t move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It’s able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Help, Better, Find

• When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rain, Parents

• We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Left, Physical, Planet

• 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

  Topics in Children, Nature, Society

  Tags in Playing

• Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Water, Precious, Resource

• What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Happy, Live, Healthy

• We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Control, Place

• With the world’s human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can’t control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Nature, Technology

  Tags in Live

• If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

• If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I’ve always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Armed, Adapt

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

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Appetite, Feeding

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Priority, Economic

• From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Geological, Change

• Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winter, Eat

David Suzuki (62)

Birth:	24th March, 1936
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Academic, Activist, Broadcaster

About

David Takayoshi Suzuki is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001.

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