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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.

David Suzuki

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David Suzuki
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 24
Biologist
Climate Activist
Environmentalist
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Science Writer
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Zoologist
Vancouver
British Columbia
David Takayoshi Suzuki
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Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.
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Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.
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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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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.
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If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.
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But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.
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