Daryl Hannah Quotes

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

I believe the green movement is gaining momentum because people are becoming more educated about the real importance of living green.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

We are grounded in the reality of the day and grounded in the technology of the day. Just saying 'turn the taps off' is not acceptable to humanity.

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

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

If there is a future, it will be Green.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the biggest difference is to change mainstream behavior.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

I consider myself fundamentally more of an environmentalist than many of the environmental groups. We have to come up with new sources of food, new sources of water, new sources of energy. Trying to ignore leading-edge science and technology as a means of getting there is an ostrich approach of burying your head in the sand.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable.