Ian Somerhalder Quotes

When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.

Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does that make coral? Our heart. We simply cannot survive without our heart; therefore, it's mandatory we heal and protect our coral reefs now.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.

Fracking is our biggest enemy right now in the U.S. Actually, not just in the U.S., because all our water systems are interconnected. Whether you're reading this in New York State or in Japan, fracking is screwing you over.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated.

Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family. We were raised to appreciate the teachings of animals and the untouched magnificence of raw natural beauty. This understanding of our precious and complex ecosystem has carried me throughout every chapter of my life and is a significant column of my identity.

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.

True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.

We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one.

Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. As a group of citizens we must speak up and act towards ending fracking. Let your government know you will not tolerate a technology that not only poisons your family but our creature family at large; let them know you want sustainable power and all the jobs that will come with that new growth.

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

Nina Dobrev makes my job easy, its hard not to melt when she looks at you with those doe eyes.

If you look at all different facets, where does it come from? Education. It comes from empowerment of young people. Because the bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

I grew up as a country boy.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

You cant get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

The word love carries the same vibration in any language.

We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us.

We're destroying our water supplies like you can't even imagine.

I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

Through the art of personal development, we see an opportunity for these animals to inspire compassion, essentially creating a path to deep personal growth. This program [Animal sanctuary] will deploy ISF's youth development program, U Factor. The program helps youth identify their passion, cultivate their talent, amplify their purpose, and connect the younger generation to diminishing species and biodiversity.

The symphonic sounds of nature awaken every cell in my body and, in that moment, without a doubt, I am truly alive.

If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.

We ultimately have to find truth in the material, and I think that transfers onto the screen. Obviously there's varying degrees of it, and we don't get it right all the time [laughs], but I think when it feels grounded, it's because we recognize the truth in the material.

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

Social media is changing the world, and we're all here whitnessing it.

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

Love has so many unique yet consistent forms.

More than ever, it's very apparent that we are strapped for natural resources. We configure and reconfigure to try and find a way to maintain natural assets, when, ultimately, we are overlooking the most abundant, dynamic, and powerful resource we have available to us - our youth.

Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.

The word love carries the same vibration in any language. You probably know this guy, you probably had dinner with him yesterday. The Japanese water crystal guy?

Looking around the world at these wildlife, it's abundantly clear that humans have benefited from nature in so many ways but have also brought many species to the brink of extinction...The American people that I interact with through my IS Foundation work do not want to allow this to happen; they do not want to let these species go without a fight; and they see the way in which nature provides for people around the world.