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David Suzuki
David Suzuki
Canadian Scientist
Born: Mar 24, 1936
Energy Environmental Future Live People Water
Related authors: Frederick Banting Gad Saad Hans Selye Hugh Ross Orlando Aloysius Battista Sid Meier Steven Pinker William Osler
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA. David Suzuki
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The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work. David Suzuki
Work Health Heart Diabetes Cancer Problems Healthy Energy Our Ways Stroke Evolved Tells Risk More Through Instead Most Exercise Alzheimer Reduce Healthy Diet Effective Heart Disease Disease Diet Move Oil Literature Us Bodies Use Many Now Medical Muscles
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. David Suzuki
Natural Money Water Soil Will Air Alive Destroy Systems Well Us Function Keep Amount Biodiversity Save
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. David Suzuki
Car Sit Everyone Giant Arguing Heading Towards Over Wall Going Where Brick Brick Wall
We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. David Suzuki
Nature Facebook Blame Dangerous Society Too Our Tell Rather Fact Dirty Put Occupying Priority Than Often Children In Fact Them Themselves Mud Connecting Playing
Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions. David Suzuki
Sometimes Soil Insects Important Live Birds Increasingly Local Our Wildlife Thousands Indigenous Rely Over Because Climate Years Conditions Native Them Communities Planting Gardens Species Millions Millions Of Years
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.' David Suzuki
Future Creative Memory Creativity Made Gave Those Characteristics Something Invented Vast Had Advantage Idea Were Brain Very Curiosity Curious Did Human Storage Human Brain Us Special
Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it. David Suzuki
Nothing Evidence Admit Faced Argue Global Global Warming Real Little Warming Many Humans Started
Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere. David Suzuki
Our Way Seeing Environmentalism Within Place
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species. David Suzuki
Build Others Recognize Share Continue Ultimately Spaces While Urban Landscapes Species Humans Need
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary. David Suzuki
Education Best People Solution Outright Bags Get May Stop Them Incentives Plastic Using Necessary
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. David Suzuki
Education Science Important Lesson Way Failed Most Important Lesson Very The Most Important Skepticism Convey Teach Serious
More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water. David Suzuki
People Water Adequate More Clean Clean Water Access Than Lack Billion
I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it? David Suzuki
Plants Edge Own Move On Trees Stationary Out See Seem Faces More Along Hike Rock Always How Am Oceans Been Than Blown Blown Away Move Canoe Lakes Interested Organisms Growing Away
Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian. David Suzuki
People Doors Those Cases Emergency Open Particularly Always Proud Oppressed Offered Canada Canadian Refuge Boat Vietnam Should Who
I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions. David Suzuki
Love Analysis Genetic Fell Answer Questions Precision Experimentation Elegance Biological Profound
My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan. David Suzuki
Government Time Family Memories Interior Possessions Because Were Camp Childhood Childhood Memories Just Just Because Japan Us Grandparents Include
Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.' David Suzuki
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Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom. David Suzuki
About Environmentalist Gloom Doom Being
The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases. David Suzuki
Responsibility Approach Corporate Cases Voluntary Failed Social Many Social Responsibility
Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens. David Suzuki
Business Settle Favor Citizens Over May Often Interests Organizations Help Agreements Disputes Necessary Treaties
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. David Suzuki
Environmental Natural Problem Water Pressure Earth Earthquakes Release Worst High Shake Shatter Massive Chemicals Up Shooting Unexpected Natural Gas Sand Might Amount Things Gas
We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor. David Suzuki
Water Big Organic Added Enough Percent Dribble Weight Over Ball Just Away Floor
People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way. David Suzuki
Food Animal People Plant Own Every Our Once Earth Way Bit Those Alive Take Most Another Understand Mouths Apart Bodies Molecules Even Tear Creature Profound Incorporate
Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources. David Suzuki
Seriously Energy States Cities Emissions Cleaner Taking Countries Global Global Warming Well Reduce Shift Sources Provinces Warming Energy Sources Working Many
Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade. David Suzuki
Political Those Systems Economic Invested Countries Protect Because Trade Often Agreements Differing Needed
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