Earth day quotes

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◆ 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 Orben100

◆ Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

- John Muir99

◆ I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

- Frank Lloyd Wright99

◆ Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

- Chief Seattle99

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

- Charles Lindbergh99

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

- Dennis Gabor99

◆ There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

- Marshall McLuhan99

◆ The best gift to our children will be safe and beautiful EARTH.

- Sonam Arora Luthra99

◆ 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.

- Cree Indian Proverb99

◆ The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity...that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.

- Gaylord Nelson99

◆ Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

- Thomas Alva Edison99

◆ We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

- Native American Proverb99

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

- Barry Commoner99

◆ When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

- John Muir99

◆ There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.

- George Gordon99