Earth Day Quotes - Page 4

• There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Environmental, Needs, Our Society

  Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.175, Univ of Wisconsin 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, Given, Earth

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

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• Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sky, Flying

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Life, Nature, Fate

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• Human beings cannot live without stories.

  Ann Douglas

  Stories, Storytelling, Mother Earth

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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, Conservation, Saving The Earth

  1964 Inventing the Future.

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• Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Rights, Pollution

  "Bolivia's defiant leader sets radical tone at Cancún climate talks" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

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

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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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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• I love not man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Men, Solitude

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

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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, Solitude

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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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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Nature, Laughter

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• All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Web Of Life, Together

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

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• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Sacrifice, Grandchildren, Men

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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, Wake Up, Asking

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• As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Fabric Of Life, Weapons

  Silent Spring ch. 17 (1962)

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

  David Ehrenfeld

  Green World, Humanity, Environmental

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

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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

  Spirit, Planets, Green Earth

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

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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, World

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

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• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Sleep, Air

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Spring, April

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