Quote

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted everything is recycled.

David Suzuki

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Suzuki
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 24
Biologist
Climate Activist
Environmentalist
Professor
Science Writer
Writer
Zoologist
Vancouver
British Columbia
David Takayoshi Suzuki
Recycled
Wasted
Environmental
Waste
Nature
Everything
Nothing
Thing

More quotes by David Suzuki

Image
Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy is needed to move the vehicle itself, which typically weighs 20 times more than its passengers.
David Suzuki
Image
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.
David Suzuki
Image
You are what you do, not what you say.
David Suzuki
Image
Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.
David Suzuki
Image
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.
David Suzuki
Image
Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.
David Suzuki
Image
Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying. Nobody knows what the long-term effect will be.
David Suzuki
Image
As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
David Suzuki
Image
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
Image
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
David Suzuki
Image
The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.
David Suzuki
Image
The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.
David Suzuki
Image
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
David Suzuki
Image
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
Image
Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.
David Suzuki
Image
We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
David Suzuki
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.
David Suzuki
Image
We all live downstream
David Suzuki