Tomorrow is Earth Day. There will be events all over the U.S. and the world to honor this day when we stop and learn more about our planet, our habits, and what we can do to leave less of a footprint on the world we leave to our children.
Here are a few quotes about Earth Day that may make you stop for a minute and think about things in a different way:
“Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, but loaned to you by your children.” Native American proverb
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir
“For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death.” Tom McMillan
“I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior.” Darryl Cherney
“Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, and running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.” Edward Abbey
“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
“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.” Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“… do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.” Dave Foreman
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” Marshall McLuhan
“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” 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
“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