JeanieAnn's Blog
Earthday 2008
April 22, 2008Its Earthday today! I've posted a few Earthday quotes.....post your own here if you feel like it. Are you planning anything special for Earthday?
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." ~Native American Proverb
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." ~Cree Indian Proverb
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" ~Henry David Thoreau
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. " ~Marshall McLuhan
"Earth laughs in flowers." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The earth is what we all have in common." ~Wendell Berry
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise, what is there to defend?" ~ Robert Redford
"It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy, but the quality of human life." ~ René Dubos
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." ~ John Muir
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead