251 Quotes by David Suzuki

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    It's time we stopped ignoring the environment, ... Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

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    Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

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    They wouldn't run away when dogs were attacking them. They literally were hanging around the houses, and around the school, right in the downtown part of the community,

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    I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.

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    The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.

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    In the environmental movement . . . every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

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    The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

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    Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

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