Colin Beavan Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 16 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Colin Beavan.
Famous Quotes By Colin Beavan
Why are you more concerned with where you're going than where you are? Why are you more concerned with what you're going to do than what you're doing? Why aren't you paying attention to how you live your life right this very moment? Why are you wasting this moment? Why are you wasting your life? — Colin Beavan
Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people. — Colin Beavan
When I take my last breath, will there be a wish that I had more stuff? I'll wish for only one thing, I think. That I loved better. That I had been better at loving and not being distracted by stuff or accomplishment. This life is so short and it will soon be over. What will we use it for? — Colin Beavan
If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they? — Colin Beavan
We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will. — Colin Beavan
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? — Colin Beavan
All of our potentials for good are unlimited. — Colin Beavan
The senior British economic thinker on climate, Sir Nicholas Stern, has estimated that if we don't reverse climate change, the costs of dealing with the resulting catastrophe would be as much as twenty percent of the world's Gross Domestic Product. He's saying that if we do nothing about climate change, then we will have to spend a full fifth of our planet's economic energy on dealing with the floods, hurricanes, droughts, food shortages, and epidemics that will result. — Colin Beavan
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. — Colin Beavan
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food packaging makes up twenty percent of our solid waste nationwide. — Colin Beavan
There is a reason why trash bags aren't made of transparent plastic. — Colin Beavan
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. — Colin Beavan
We can all change the people around us by changing ourselves. — Colin Beavan
The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit. — Colin Beavan