We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures. David Suzuki More Quotes by David Suzuki More Quotes From David Suzuki Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it. David Suzuki encouraging nature appreciation If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. David Suzuki positive-energy air water The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective. David Suzuki nature mother opportunity Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things. David Suzuki humanity together people If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow. David Suzuki dying earth today How you imagine the world determines how you live in it. David Suzuki learning teaching world There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere. David Suzuki light air water In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled. David Suzuki recycled environmental waste Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests are heavily impacted or gone yet their destruction continues. An estimated 50,000 species are driven to extinction each year. We dump millions of tonnes of chemicals, most untested for their biological effects, and many highly toxic, into air, water and soil. We have created an ecological holocaust. Our very health and survival are at stake, yet we act as if we have plenty of time to respond. David Suzuki ocean air years 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 naughty children dirty If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases. David Suzuki moving needs thinking Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary. David Suzuki incentives bags people So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are important. I mean, we go to war. We will kill and die to protect those boundaries. Nature couldn't give two hoots about our national boundaries. David Suzuki war mean country Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature. David Suzuki keys spiritual people Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. David Suzuki positive-energy important education My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning household or domain. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is its management. Ecologists try to define the conditions and principles that enable a species to survive and flourish. Yet in elevating the economy above those principles, we seem to think we are immune to the laws of nature. We have to put the ‘eco’ back into economics. David Suzuki law home thinking The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society. David Suzuki members environment fundamentals 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 impact warning too-late Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth. David Suzuki ocean earth air There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1. 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