Earth Day Quotes - Page 2

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

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

A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.

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

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

Celebrate Earth Day every day.

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.

Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.

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

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!

Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.