Green Earth Quotes - Page 2

• Everything is connected. Connectivity is going to be the key to addressing these issues, like contaminants and climate change. They're not just about contaminants on your plate. They're not just about the ice depleting. They're about the issue of humanity. 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, Keys, Russia

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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.

  Wangari Maathai

  Earth Day, Spirit, Planets

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Julia Hill

  Morning, Earth Day, Wake Up

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

  Margaret Laurence

  Earth Day, Environmental, Should

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• The thing that is incredible is life itself.

  Edwin Markham

  Incredibles

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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