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

- Colin Beavan

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

- Colin Beavan

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 b…

- Colin Beavan

Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

- Colin Beavan

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…

- Colin Beavan

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

- Colin Beavan

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 w…

- Colin Beavan

All of our potentials for good are unlimited.

- Colin Beavan

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the mos…

- Colin Beavan