Ed Begley, Jr. Quotes

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• If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
• We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta…
• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I…
• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad…
• We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may…
• When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.
• To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service…
• The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper...
• I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
• As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
• I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.
• I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
• Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
• My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
• One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
• The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.
• The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
• By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric…
• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
• For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are…

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