Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

Each of us can and must shift our behavior according to our ability. For some, that means changing diet, shopping locally, or putting solar panels on their house. For others, it means using their voice to inspire transformative change.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.

I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

You can't be a perfect environmentalist unless you're Ed Begley, Jr., whom I once saw on TV using a bicycle to power his toaster. He's amazing.

Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

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

You want to help mother Earth? Try sodomy. Sodomy is eco-friendly, and abortion is green.

For us, every day is Earth Day. It's like with Women's Day recently, I said, "Every day is women's day - we're women!" It's something that we sort of take for granted.

It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.

We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a matter of new technologies or new sources of renewable, safe energy. It is about how we all behave every day of our lives, what we eat, what we drink, what we recycle, re-use, repair, how we produce and how we consume

The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?

To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.

We're now moving into a stage where the green economy isn't just going to be the place for people to spend money. It's going to become a place where a lot more people can earn money, and also save more money. These kind of solutions require collective action and government action. So as an advocate for government change, even somebody like me gets to have a role.

The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person's life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

Vegetarian is the New Prius!

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

My house is covered in solar panels, I'm a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this.