David Suzuki Quotes

We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

David Suzuki

• Nature
• Opportunity
• Respect
• Control
• Die

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• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Die
  • Nothing

• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
  • Control

• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Different
  • Die
  • Luckier

• All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • Manager

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Control
  • Red
  • Difficult

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I like drums, really, if they're under control.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Control
  • Like
  • Really

• I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Nature

• Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Sometimes

• If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Respect
  • Court
  • Tried

• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Permanent
  • Learners

• I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Why
  • Control

• Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Become

• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Game

• In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • English

• I don't cook. I respect food too much.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Respect
  • Cook

• There is an indolence in griefWhich will not even seek relief. What is the toil, or care, or pain,The human heart cannot sustain?Enough if struggling can createA change or colour in our fate;But where's the spirit that can copeWith listless suffering, when hope,The last of misery's allies,Sickens of its sweet self, and dies.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Pain

• I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Nature
  • Opportunity
  • Respect