Margaret Mead Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

• We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Children, Future

  "The Energy Crisis - Why Our World Will Never Again Be the Same". Margaret Mead, "Redbook", 1974, later quoted in Hugh Nash "Progress As If Survival Mattered: A Handbook For A Conserver Society" (p. 166), 1977.

• There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to

  Margaret Mead

  Lying, Purpose, Earth

• ...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Respect, Animal

• Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.

  Margaret Mead

  Integrity, Ocean, Communication

• No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

  Margaret Mead

  Technology, Temptation, Mastery

  "Margaret Mead, 1901-1978: One of the Most Famous Anthropologists in the World". Voice of America Special English: "People in America" with Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith, learningenglish.voanews.com. July 1, 2011.

• We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

  Margaret Mead

  Earth

• to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Equality

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

• It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

  Margaret Mead

  Moon, Environmental, Earth

• EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.

  Margaret Mead

  Sadness, Dedication, Discovery

• Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

  Margaret Mead

  Holy Days, Earth Day, Historical

• EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Safety, Earth Day

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