Keanu Reeves Quotes

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

As cheesy as it sounds, truly every day is Earth Day.

I have been fighting climate change and working to improve our environment.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

I had just gotten to the point when I could have bought any car I wanted to in America. I even looked at a Hummer. But one day I woke up and realized, how can I talk the talk without walking the walk? If you can feel good about not contributing to global change, then all the power to you, but I couldn't.

I became a spokeswoman for Future Friendly - a partnership between sustainability experts and household brands trying to inspire people to save water, energy, and packaging.

The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. The planet is running fine. What people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow.

I've always been very aware of environment. When I was a kid I wanted to be a marine biologist until I realized I hated being underwater. I think a lot of that came from traveling and seeing the levels of waste produced by so many factories around the world.

I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'