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Every day is Earth Day.
Author Unknown

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
George Carlin

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.
A Chieftan from Nigeria

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan, 1964

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

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.
Robert Orben

I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior.
Darryl Cherney

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughn

For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death.
Tom McMillan

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John Muir

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Daniel Webster

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Dennis Gabor

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

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world.Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.
Pam Shaw

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.
Cree Indian Proverb

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal, Satires

Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
Stephanie Mills

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb

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

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.
Brooke Medicine Eagle

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

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland, Sundial

There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.
Bourke Coekran

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

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