Best 80 quotes in «earth day quotes» category

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

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.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away.

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.

... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

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

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.

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!

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

Human beings cannot live without stories.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

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.

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

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?

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

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.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

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.

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.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

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.

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

The earth is what we all have in common.

Strange is our situation here upon earth.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

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

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.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

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.

Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons.

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