Quotations for Earth Day
I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.
The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change
the world.
The packaging for a microwavable “microwave” dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Strange is our situation here upon earth.
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. If we save a priceless woodland today, it is threatened from another quarter tomorrow.
The earth is what we all have in common.
I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.
As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
I really wonder what gives us the right to
wreck this poor planet of ours.
What is the use of a house
if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, and running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
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