Severn Cullis-Suzuki Quotes

We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.

I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.

If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.

I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

Think globally, act locally.

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

I love individuals who care about what's going on the world and how we can help make it a better place.

We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.

I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.

I just want to be a better person to the community.

You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better

If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.

Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

I say I am a Planetwalker. Then I have to explain that a Planetwalker is anyone who walks the planet as a lifestyle choice, as part of an education in the spirit and hope of using the journey to benefit the world.