World Earth Day Quotes - Page 2

• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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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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• 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

  Fun, Air, Earth Day

  "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

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• God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much love, life, beauty and peace. Enjoy your stay with the fellow beings.

  Amit Ray

  Love Life, Heaven, Earth

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• 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

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

  Barry Commoner

  People, Firefighter, Earth Day

  "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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

  Charles Lindbergh

  Simple, Men, Earth Life

  Reader's Digest, July 1972.

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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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• On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

  John Hoeven

  Earth Day, Needs, Generations

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• God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Simple, Men, Earth Life

  Reader's Digest, July 1972.

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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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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• 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 Nelson

  Jobs, Ocean, Rivers

  Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.157, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Nature, Mutual Interest, Earth Day

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

  Dennis Gabor

  Men, Earth Day, Conservation

  1964 Inventing the Future.

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• The earth is what we all have in common.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Earth Day, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.97, Counterpoint

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• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Nature, Earth Day

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

  Jay Inslee

  Country, Earth Day, Environmental

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• I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

  Alice Walker

  Wise, Earth Day, Damage

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.256, Hachette UK

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• The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

  Stephanie Mills

  Safe Environment, Earth Day, Environmental

  Stephanie Mills (1990). “In Praise of Nature”, p.97, Island Press

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• The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

  Alice Walker

  Wise, Earth Day, Given

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.256, Hachette UK

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• It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

  David Attenborough

  Beauty, Nature, Earth Day

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• Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

  David Ehrenfeld

  Green World, Earth Day, Humanity

  "The Arrogance of Humanism". Book by David Ehrenfeld, 1978.

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• What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Nature, Reflection

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