Earth Day Quotes

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  • The earth is what we all have in common.

    Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.97, Counterpoint
  • Shouldn't every day be Earth Day? I mean, what are our options?

    Mean   Earth Day   Earth  
  • He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

    Love   Nature   Science  
    "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 2248, 1732.
  • Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

    Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria
  • Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

    Love   Nature   Art  
    Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.10, University of Arkansas Press
  • I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

  • A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

    Fun   Earth Day   Helping  
    Philip Kapleau (1980). “Zen: dawn in the West”, Doubleday
  • The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

    "Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.
  • The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

    Book   Earth Day   World  
    "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", www.imdb.com. 2012.
  • We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.

  • The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

  • Celebrate Earth Day every day.

    Song: Earth Day, Every Day, Album: Earth Songs
  • A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.

    Coffee   Weekend   Impact  
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

    Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"
  • When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.

    Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.226, Penguin
  • The problem of environmental children's health is very urgent in Russia. Environmental situation now is the main factor, which determines young generation's health... the volume of pollutant emissions in atmosphere and water grew and scale of ecological man-caused catastrophes increased. More than half of Russian territories, where 60-70 percent of the of population lives, have unsafe ecological situation.

    Children   Men   Russia  
  • It's Earth Day today. Let me tell you something about polar bears. They're endangered but you have to be careful because a polar bear is one of the few animals that will stalk a human. If you go to where polar bears live, it might stalk you and when you're on the plane going home, it might be behind you reading.

    Reading   Home   Animal  
  • We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

  • The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

    Fun   Green World   Oil  
  • I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

  • Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!

  • Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  • There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

    Space   Earth Day   Tiny  
    Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books
  • We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

  • The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

    Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press
  • One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

    'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171
  • All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet - at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.

    Fate   Voice   Earth Day  
    "Wangari Maathai: 'You Strike The Woman...'". Priscilla Sears, "In Context" (journal), Volume 28, Spring 1991.
  • Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

    Nature   Wind   Weather  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.70, Harvard University Press
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