David Suzuki Quotes

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the seas…. God said “Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.

... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven by pride of domination, of possessions, manipulation, of exploitation; we do not "care" for it, we do not respect it, we do not consider it as a free gift that we must care for.

If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.