Best 80 quotes in «earth day quotes» category

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

The job of the united nations is to grow more flowers on the earth.

Through our belly buttons, not only can we connect with ourselves, but we also gain the wisdom to see the earth as an extension of ourselves.

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.

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

The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. “Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Dangerous As People Say? Well,” he exclaimed, glancing at the front photo, which featured the Sydney Steel Corporation, along with its plumes of orange smog. “You know, most people your age are really against that mill, as if it’s a disease. We have university students protesting every few weeks or so… strangely enough, the ones who have parents who rely on that steel mill to pay the bills.” “What about the pollution?” Wendy questioned, almost accusingly, as if it was his fault. “What if dangerous chemicals are in the environment?” “Hey kid, I don’t even work at the mill, never have, but my father, my uncle, their father, cousins, all worked there,” the prints shop man argued, placing the newspapers in a cardboard box and taping it shut. “When it comes down to all that ‘go green’ crap, you have to ask yourself, is it worth risking a person’s income, their job, their family… their life? I’m not saying you’re wrong, but these newspapers might have a point.

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Human beings cannot live without stories.

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 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 not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human 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 already too late to avoid mass starvation.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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'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.