Severn Cullis-Suzuki Quotes

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

I think its important to speak up for the environment because the Earth is not saying something.

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.

I'm a green guy, the earth is important to me.

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 see myself as a climber and an activist.

Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

Environmentalism has failed.

From high school, you can see my Sierra Club card - I've been a member since 1979. That gives you an indication of early interest.

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

I'm sick of environmentalism.

Everything I do is the environment.

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

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth.