Ed Begley, Jr. famous quotes

03-28-2025

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 simply live.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Needs #May #Poverty
If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Buying #Recycling #Environment
This is a deeply spiritual issue...Do we want to spend more time trying to care for our fellow man or do we want to just pursue more virtual reality? That's the issue before us.. and it's being played out in the world of the environment.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#God #Spiritual #Reality
The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Food #Yugoslavia #Pork
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 tracks - and green things started to grow there!
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Track #Green #Next
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 was a star.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Stars #Children #Eye
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 save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Running #Jobs #Ocean
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Years #Water #Film
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 car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#People #Car #Mind
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.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#California #Car #Environmental
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 inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#College #Community #Leader
For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Energy #Plant #Plant Based Diet
I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Golf #Mph #Car
I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Fun #Energy #Batteries
I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Strong #Impact #Years
It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Land #Water #Energy
The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Rushing #Environmental #Results
One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Believe #Car #Meditation
When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Hate #Men #Progress
The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper...
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Wind #Two #Energy
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 where they need it-on the roof of their hut.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Running #Giving #House
I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Father #Childhood #Friendly
As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#California #Water #Southern
I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Stars #Actors #Wealthy
I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Grids
Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Stars #Dirty #Air
My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#My Favorite #Form #Restaurants
People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Feet #People #Challenges

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