David Frum Quotes

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?

Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really lives his lives, and is he very prudent in the way he lives. He's cautious. He's not like an Al Gore that flies around in a private jet and burns 20,000 gallons a day on his jet.

I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

To protect the environment, you have to work from the outside, not the inside.

Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility.

As parents, it is our responsibility to show by example and educate our children on the importance of caring for our planet.

It's funny: being green to me was ingrained because my parents were always trying to save money, save water, turn off the lights, or arrange a carpool. I don't think my parents even know what it means to be green, but they were.

We gotta leave a better planet for our kids. And I would say we gotta leave better kids for our planet as well.

We all have an obligation to pass on a better environment to our kids.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

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

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.

I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

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

But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.