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You are what you do, not what you say.

David Suzuki

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David Suzuki
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 24
Biologist
Climate Activist
Environmentalist
Professor
Science Writer
Writer
Zoologist
Vancouver
British Columbia
David Takayoshi Suzuki
Proactive

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Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.
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Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.
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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.
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What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?
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A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.
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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.
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One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.
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We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.
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We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
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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.
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It is not too late to take another path.
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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.
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Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.
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Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.
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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
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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.
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Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.
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Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.
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