Quotes from Colin Beavan

Believe with all your heart that how you live your life makes a difference

Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

We can all change the people around us by changing ourselves.

de que o objetivo do ambientalismo não tem a ver com tentar usar menos, mas antes com tentar ser mais. Não tem a ver com beneficiarmos de menos coisas, mas antes com darmos aquilo que de melhor há dentro de nós. O ambientalismo não tem a ver com o ambiente. Tem a ver com as pessoas. Tem a ver com o sonho de uma vida melhor para as pessoas.

Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?

Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeeds somehow made me virtuous.

I simply feel that now we've so utterly perfected the walkie-talkie to the point where it has become the iPhone, maybe we could turn the great minds that brought us the Nintendo Wii, to, say, getting fresh water to the one billion people on our planet who don't have it.

There is a reason why trash bags aren't made of transparent plastic.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeed somehow made me virtuous.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food packaging makes up twenty percent of our solid waste nationwide.