Dennis Weaver quotes

Dennis Weaver was an American actor, best known for his roles in classic television series such as “Gunsmoke” and “McCloud.” His performances brought a unique blend of charm and intensity to the characters he portrayed. He also became a prominent advocate for environmental and humanitarian causes. Here are 23 of his quotes:

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! (Dennis Weaver)

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

Dennis Weaver

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

Dennis Weaver

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.

Dennis Weaver

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Dennis Weaver

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

Dennis Weaver

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

Dennis Weaver

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

Dennis Weaver

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

Dennis Weaver

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Dennis Weaver

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people. (Dennis Weaver)

If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake.

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Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Dennis Weaver

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

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Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Dennis Weaver

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Dennis Weaver

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

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We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

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We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

Dennis Weaver

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

Dennis Weaver

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone. (Dennis Weaver)

Man is innately a creature of love. That love is the most powerful force in the universe, and eventually - it's a very slow process - it will conquer.

Dennis Weaver

The basic message of Gunsmoke was that there's going to be the bad and there's going to be the good. And most of the time, the good will win out.

Dennis Weaver

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Occupation: American Actor
Born: June 4, 1924
Died: February 24, 2006
Quotes count: 23

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