David Suzuki Quotes

• Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Stupid

  Tags in Products, Scientist

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Time, Learn

• 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

• Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, While

• 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

• 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

• 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 government’s desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn’t give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Must, May

• 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 damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Lives

• Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Live, Powerful

• Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simple, Energy, Solutions

• Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we’ve become accustomed.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Live, Possible, Quickly

• Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It’s too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stop, Late, Global

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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