Top 35 Peter Garrett Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life is very short; be willing to serve.”

— Peter Garrett

2. “It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.”

— Peter Garrett

3. “I haven’t chosen to make an issue of faith.”

— Peter Garrett

4. “The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.”

— Peter Garrett

5. “Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.”

— Peter Garrett

6. “I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.”

— Peter Garrett

7. “Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.”

— Peter Garrett

8. “That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.”

— Peter Garrett

9. “Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme – the details are still to be decided – and that’s an encouraging sign.”

— Peter Garrett

10. “There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.”

— Peter Garrett

11. “It’s absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.”

— Peter Garrett

12. “The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!”

— Peter Garrett

13. “What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don’t serve us well because they don’t tell the truth, and they don’t keep their promises.”

— Peter Garrett

14. “In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.”

— Peter Garrett

15. “You don’t want to spend your life explaining yourself.”

— Peter Garrett

16. “I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.”

— Peter Garrett

17. “There is job growth in renewables, there is job growth in energy efficiency and there is job growth in developing innovative industries and technologies to successfully meet the challenge of climate change.”

— Peter Garrett

18. “The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.”

— Peter Garrett

19. “I don’t blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.”

— Peter Garrett

20. “The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won’t be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.”

— Peter Garrett

21. “I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.”

— Peter Garrett

22. “Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.”

— Peter Garrett

23. “Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.”

— Peter Garrett

24. “Well I’m not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.”

— Peter Garrett

25. “Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.”

— Peter Garrett

26. “At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.”

— Peter Garrett

27. “Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.”

— Peter Garrett

28. “Humans remain entirely atmosphere dependent, so there is no choice but to respond to extreme climatic behaviour and its many effects.”

— Peter Garrett

29. “I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.”

— Peter Garrett

30. “This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.”

— Peter Garrett

31. “The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.”

— Peter Garrett

32. “The place where the system and people’s intentions meet is the political arena.”

— Peter Garrett

33. “In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.”

— Peter Garrett

34. “And living in Australia I am relatively well off.”

— Peter Garrett

35. “And given that there’s been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that’s quite an interesting statistic.”

— Peter Garrett

36. “There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.”

— Peter Garrett