Jane McGonigal Quotes

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit, EarthEcho International.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

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

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

When you care about something, that's when you want to save it. I want to bring that to storytelling - to make saving the world sexy.

I found myself reading about this 16-year-old kid inventing a micro-organism to save the ocean. It made me realise that we can do anything if we put our minds to it. Even with all the damage and destruction, things can heal if we let them.

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

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.

Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.

But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.

Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.

Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.

Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

So many people think you have to be rich and famous to really create an impact, and it's just not true. Especially when it comes to environmentalism.

Folks who are alive today need to wake up and do what they can to stop abusing the planet, and find ways to preserve the web of life. That's where the soul is headed. It is time for us to become wounded healers.

I banned bottled water from my house - we have a water-filter system so you can drink from the tap. We always drink out of glass, and recycling is a huge deal, which everybody can partake in.

Obviously, when I learn about something new that I can do in my everyday life that makes a whole lot of sense and can help the environment, I do it. Eventually, it just becomes second nature. If we all begin to learn from one another and share some of the things we do, we just might be able to affect the world for the better through these little rituals. In a curious way, this would be a great wave of awareness: doing the right thing without being told to or having to think why.

I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

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.