Mother Earth Quotes

• All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. Things come full circle, back to where they started. That's revolution.

  Russell Means

  Mother, Simple, Order

  "I Am Not a Leader": Russell Means’ 1980 Mother Jones Cover Story, www.motherjones.com.

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• Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Mother, Technology

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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• The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Son, Men

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Mother, Love Is

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.46, The Golden Sufi Center

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• To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Stupid, Thinking, Land

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• The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

  Garrett Hardin

  Mother, Powerful, Mean

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• Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!

  Casper Van Dien

  Mother, Eye, Color

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• I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

  Dan Millman

  Mother, Religious, Technology

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• I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Mother, Rocks, People

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Mother, Men, Should Have

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• We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Mother, Age, Bills

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• You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Hard Work, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8255, Delphi Classics

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• Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

  Herman E. Daly

  Mother, Scarcity, Earth

  Herman E. Daly (1991). “Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays”, p.43, Island Press

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  Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

  Ralph Nader

  Fun, Green World, Oil

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

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspiring, Peace

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

  Crazy Horse

  Children, Native American, Parent

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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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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Nature

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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• Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  Standing Bear

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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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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• 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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