Colin Beavan Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

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#5. 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?

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#6. 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.

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#7. If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

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#8. All of our potentials for good are unlimited.

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#9. 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?

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#10. 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?

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

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

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#13. 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.

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#14. We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.

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