He spent his life communicating his reverence for nature and fighting to protect it. “That area is now Valhalla Provincial Park, one of the most beautiful parts of B.C.” He wore a zipped gray fleece and was keenly alert, even though it was 7 a.m. A third-generation Canadian, he spoke no Japanese, and when the Japanese-speaking kids bullied him, he found solace “deep in the bush,” he said in a recent video interview from his living room sofa in Vancouver. Suzuki formed “a tight bond with nature” as a six year old, forced with his family into a British Columbia internment camp during the Second World War. Even though he’s been hosting it for 43 years, literally half his life. Log In Create Free Accountĭavid Suzuki has such boundless energy, and his place in the Canadian firmament is so fixed, that audiences were surprised in October to hear he was retiring from his CBC series The Nature of Things.
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