Earth Day quotes
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We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.
-- Agnes Baker Pilgrim -
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
-- Albert Einstein -
I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
-- Alice Walker -
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 -
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
-- Barry Commoner -
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
-- Barry Commoner -
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
-- Barry Commoner -
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
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There is no such place as away.
-- Chief Seattle -
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!
-- Ciaran Lynch -
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
-- Daniel Webster -
I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.
-- Darryl Cherney -
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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
-- David Attenborough -
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
-- David Attenborough -
... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.
-- David Foreman -
When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.
-- Denis Hayes -
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It is already too late to avoid mass starvation
-- Denis Hayes -
The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.
-- Jane Goodall -
We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
-- Jay Inslee -
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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.
-- Jeremy Rifkin -
Celebrate Earth Day every day.
-- John Denver -
On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
-- John Hoeven -
Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
-- Jon Stewart -
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The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.
-- Jonathon Porritt -
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on.
-- Lewis Black -
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
-- Martin Luther -
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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-- Maya Angelou -
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
-- Paul Johnson -
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca -
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Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.
-- Pete Seeger -
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
-- Ralph Nader -
If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that can be attained, then even if we have less energy at our command and fewer material goods available, we might nevertheless still increase our satisfaction in life.
-- Richard Heinberg -
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
-- Richard Rogers -
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I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
-- Robert Redford -
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
-- Vandana Shiva -
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.
-- Viktor Schauberger -
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
-- Wendell Berry -
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The earth is what we all have in common.
-- Wendell Berry -
Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?
-- Alan Caruba -
The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I had thought remotely, and in hazily speculative fashion. And now, it was approaching in a manner of which none had ever dreamed.
-- William Hope Hodgson -
