Rachel Sklar Quotes

My main form of exercise is my bike. I don't have a car, so I cycle everywhere.

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.

I never had a car in high school or college.

It's a pipe dream, but for me, I've always wanted a Tesla. I would never have to go to a gas station.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

For me, green is more about cycling than recycling.

Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

I have a lot of nicknames. In high school and growing up it was Beaver. In college it was Gotti.

On paper, I am a Tesla guy. I've got money, I'm a nerd, and for years I professionally ran a blog advocating for technology that helps decrease our impact on the environment. I love what Tesla does.

How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.

I'm kind of against car culture - I've always been a cyclist.

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.

When I see somebody in a Prius, sure, you drive a Prius and you get good gas mileage, but you probably feel like you drive a Prius.

Today is Earth Day. Environmentalists spent the day drawing attention to the Earth, while the Earth just spent the day checking Facebook to see which planets wished it a happy Earth Day.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Everybody wants to matter. And that's the sales pitch. So all you have to do is go out and, you know, buy some new kind of newfangled hybrid car or agree to raise taxes or, if you go to the store, buy everything and anything with a green label on it and you are saving the planet.

There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.

Bernie Sanders talked about except he focused mainly on infrastructure. We are talking about energy and food as part of that and public transportation as part of that infrastructure.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.

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

I'm into carpooling, because sometimes my car gets hot and needs to refresh itself.