John Grogan Quotes

If you wear clothing, and put out trash you are using up resources that others also need BUT I can pay attention and I can do better. That I know for sure about me, my soul needs to try or I can't lay my head down on my pillow at night and even hope to sleep.

Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didn’t know you bought clothes at anything but the Goodwill until I went to college. Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.

... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

Think globally, act locally.

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens.

I get up each and every day trying to do my level best to make Victoria a better place.

Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you can start small, and that's just as important.

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

I like to do something good every day of my life, and I wanna leave the earth better than I found it.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

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

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

I do all I can to make my world a better place to live in for me and for my kids as well.

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.

We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I'm doing that with the work we are carrying out here in Patagonia.

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.

I'm about creating positive change in the communities that I come from.