Philippe Cousteau Jr. Quotes

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding.

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

You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.

To protect the natural environment is to protect the possibilities for youth.

I want to create my own charity, getting inner-city kids to read more. And I want to produce my own films.

If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.

We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.

Since the LeBron James Family Foundation shifted its focus on education, it's been important to us to document the innovative work we're doing.

I am so honored to be working with A Place Called Home as their ambassador to bring awareness to the incredible services and programs which benefits kids in the Los Angeles community.

When I made the switch from strictly entertainment news to more of these natural world documentaries, it's really been all about wanting to make saving the world cool.

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet.

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

The real magic in National Geographic isn't how much money they have left at the end of the year. It's the fact that through their overall focus they are reaching hundreds of millions of people and educating people about the world. It just happens to be done in a business-oriented kind of way that is more sustainable.

I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in my career where I'm doing a lot of talks because I want to get kids turned on. I want to see these kids, these geeky nerdy kids, go out there and do something.

I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered it my personal responsibility to pick up litter wherever I found it and yell at anyone I saw contributing to the problem (much to the horror of my mother). I was a ten-year-old on a mission to clean up the streets! But it was years later when I became a mother myself that concern for my kids' future really ignited my passion and set me on my course. Once I started reading and educating myself, there was no turning back.

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.