QUOTES FOR THE EARTH

..QUOTES FOR THE EARTH..

"Go through these beautiful Earth Day Quotes and rise to do your bit for the planet. "
Save our Earth and Earth will save us..

"be mindful of and sensitive to the natural environment in your daily life"

"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew."
Marshall McLuhan, 1964 

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."
Mahatma Gandhi

 "For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death."
Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

 "I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior."
Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990 

"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 

"Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it."
Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader's Digest, July 1972

"... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth."
Dave Foreman

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

"Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life."
Thomas Alva Edison

"A green, renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future – it is now. It is creating jobs – now. It is providing cheap alternatives to $140-per-barrel oil – now. And it can create millions of additional jobs, an entire new industry, if we act – now."
Barack Obama
US President

"Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations."
Sigmund Jahn
German Cosmonaut

“Only when the last tree has been cut down,
Only when the last river has been poisoned,
Only when the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”
Cree Indian Prophecy

"In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day."
Lester Brown
Author of Plan B 4: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

"In the long term, economic sustainability depends on ecological sustainability."
America's Living Oceans
Pew Oceans Report, 2003

"In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. Stopping the loggers is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change."
Daniel Howden
Writing in ‘The Independent'

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
Henry David Thoreau

"We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to."
Terri Sweringen

"When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world."
John Muir

"You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled."
Tahanie

"We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin."
Leif Johansson

"If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror."
John Young, former Apollo Astronaut                

"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following."

There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male

70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer

“There are two posible routes to affluence. Either produce much, or desire little."

"The only countries that are going to do well in the future are those that win the green race."

Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International