Mark Twain
Don’t go around saying the world owes you anything. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Cree Indian Proverb
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man.
Wendell Berry, cultural critic
The earth is what we all have in common.
Native American Proverb
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Unknown author
The grass can’t be greener on the other side if there’s no more grass. Make the difference in your life.
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Robert Orben
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.
Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society
Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
Quoted in Time
Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find.
William Ruckelshaus, Business Week
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
James G. Watt, Newsweek
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
Edward Abbey
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
Marshall McLuhan, 1964
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Henry David Thoreau
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
I wish a Happy Earth Day everyone!
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