David Suzuki Quotes

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Our health depends on the health of the environment in which we live.

A functioning eco-system is a human need.

The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Nature is perfect.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.

It's nice to think about having everything natural and similar to pre-Columbian times.... In fact, man himself has long been part of that environment and there is no way to separate him from that environment.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts... The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.

The planet's forests are essential for life.

Nature is so phenomenal.