Vivienne Westwood Quotes

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

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

Unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it…. Only if we understand the beauty of nature will we love it, and only if we become alerted to learn about the planet's disease processes can we decide to live our lives with a proper sense of ecological responsibility.

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

When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.

It truly seems to me that there is some kind of shift happening towards ecological awareness - not just in terms of PR for the science.

I believe the green movement is gaining momentum because people are becoming more educated about the real importance of living green.

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.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.

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.

I try to be green as much as I can and it's hard. I feel like I'm never doing enough. [...] For me as an actor, there's only so many things I can do, and this is a way, through a film, to teach and hopefully get the message out to young kids.

I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.

My daughter's just going to be really hip! My goal is to be as eco-conscious as possible: There's so much out there for parents who want to do that. I plan to keep her eco-friendly as she gets older. I think we all sort of have to do it.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.