Shepard Fairey Quotes

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

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the biggest difference is to change mainstream behavior.

Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.

I want to work on environmental issues.

I don't want to pretend that I am a little David Suzuki, because I am not. I'm really different. I have different issues. I'm more interested in the social aspect of environmental issues.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

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

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

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 wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

The Earth needs rebels!

I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

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

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

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