Robert Redford Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Robert Redford

  Nature, Thinking, Earth Day

• I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

  Robert Redford

  Careers, Passionate, Environment

  Academy Awards 1974 Oscar Annual, www.imdb.com.

• I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a saying when we were trying to pay attention to the environment that people used this phrase NIMBY - not in my back yard. People were saying, ‘I don’t care, it is not in my back yard.’ But now it’s in everyone’s back yard.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

• Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it was not an easy time. Those were the days when the oil and gas companies pretty much controlled the show and anybody speaking about solar energy or carbon energy would get smashed down as being a radical or a tree-hugger or what have you. So I was out there feeling very often alone and my kids would get that.

  Robert Redford

  Kids, Oil, Tree

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.

  Robert Redford

  Animal, Rights, Long

  “Robert Redford: What I've Learned” by Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2014.

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