Beau Garrett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.
-- Beau Garrett

#Animal #Rights #Environmental
I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
-- Beau Garrett

#Eight #Years #People
Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
-- Beau Garrett

#Acting #Vulnerable #Uncomfortable
I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
-- Beau Garrett

#Paris #Sixteen #Months
I'm as far away from technology as possible. But I like to be as present as possible.
-- Beau Garrett

#Technology #Far Away

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community.
Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.
In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.
It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.
So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, â€œIf we can find the trillions [of dollars] weâ€™re finding for conflict whether thereâ€™s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money thatâ€™s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.â€
The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

Beau Garrett famous quotes

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