Green Earth Quotes - Page 2

All things are bound together. All things connect.

Chief Seattle

Native American, Web Of Life, Earth Day

Seattle (Chief) (1980). “How can one sell the air?: the manifesto of an Indian chief”, Book Publishing Company (TN)

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In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

Paul Brooks

Land, America, Environmental

Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”

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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

Nature, Fighting, Government

"Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.

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Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

John Clapham

Progress, Society, Environmental

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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Robert Wilson Lynd

Life, Dog, Men

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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.

Wangari Maathai

Fate, Voice, Earth Day

"Wangari Maathai: 'You Strike The Woman...'". Priscilla Sears, "In Context" (journal), Volume 28, Spring 1991.

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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Aldo Leopold

Beauty, Nature, Integrity

A Sand County Almanac pt. 3 (1949)

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They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

James G. Watt

Tree, Environmental, Forests

"Weinberger and the press: point, counterpoint" by Richard Halloran, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

Life, Strong Women, Differences

"Inspire Her Feature: Olivia R. Colombo". Interview with Briana Berger, www.codergirls.org. June 19, 2017.

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

Margaret Laurence

Earth Day, Environmental, Should

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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

Nature, Squirrels, Earth Day

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I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today. I believe in what I do beyond a shadow of a doubt. I gave my word to this tree and to all the people that my feet would not touch the ground until I had done everything in my power to make the world aware of this problem and to stop the destruction.

Julia Hill

Morning, Believe, Feet

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

James F. Cooper

Lonely, Nature, Earth Day

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What we do every day - whether you live in
Mexico, the United States, Russia, China
can have a very negative impact on
an entire way of life for an entire people
far away from that source

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Impact, Russia, People

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

Thomas A. Edison

Mother, Health, Men

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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosophical, Land, Environmental

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “The Essential Writings of Rousseau”, p.50, Modern Library

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When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Saving The Earth, Mother Earth

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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The thing that is incredible is life itself.

Edwin Markham

Incredibles

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

Julia Hill

Morning, Earth Day, Wake Up

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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Jacques Barzun

Future, Civilization, Vision

Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

Paul MacCready

Grandchildren, Environmental, Society

"Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.

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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Havelock Ellis

Stars, Moon, Long Ago

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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Science, Men

"Life Without Principle" (1863)

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in 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.

Lord Byron

Lonely, Nature, Travel

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

William Blake

Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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