|
Famous
Quotations by Tim Flannery
- I was
trying to get people to see that you can't just grow for ever and
hope that the environment will take care of itself.
Tim
Flannery - Hope
- Environment
- I felt
Australians needed to come to terms with the fact that they inhabit
a continent in the southern oceans whose nearest neighbours are Asia
and it has a very distinctive history and a very unique biological
history, and that we need to come to terms with that to live sustainably.
Tim
Flannery - Australian
- Environment
- Change
- The
world is actually in many key ways improving at the moment. There
are still enormous challenges.
Tim
Flannery - World
- Improvement
- I remain
optimistic that we can turn things around, but I think we've got much
less time than I thought to ensure our survival.
Tim
Flannery - Change
- Environment
- Action
- We
could go over the cliff. You would hope not. You would hope that people
see what needs to be done. It's not rocket science. It's not difficult.
It's not even all that costly. It's actually about the way you think
about the world.
Tim
Flannery - Change
- Environment
- Action
- Science
- Hope
- The
pursuit of money is in some ways a very shallow thing and it won't
bring happiness unless your mind is prepared to use that money in
ways that expand it and satisfy it. So, to me an interest in science
and literature and the arts, is all part of just being a full human
being, and of course you've got to make some money as well, but our
education system it seems to me, should be producing fully rounded
human beings who can say, 'I've lead a really satisfying life. I've
had all the tools I need to be able to lead a great life,' rather
than just, 'I made some money.'
Tim
Flannery - Life
- Happiness
- Money
- I was
born in Australia as a European and we are still coming to terms with
our environment in Australia. It's taken people a long time to realise
they're no longer living in Europe and they can no longer live according
to the European way of living because to do that is to destroy the
environment of Australia. There's a mismatch between the people and
their culture, and the land that they live in.
Tim
Flannery - Australian
- Environment
- Well,
to me science is nothing mysterious. It's the world that we live in
and it's trying to understand the world we live in, and we can comprehend
it in relatively simple terms and pass on that wonder and interest
in this fantastic world we all live in very easily I think.
Tim
Flannery - World
- Science
- Mystery
|