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Art Buchwald, 1970
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate.
Author Unknown
Every day is Earth Day.
Bill Vaughn, quoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Brooke Medicine Eagle
There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.
Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader's Digest, July 1972
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Chief Seattle, 1855
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Cree Indian 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.
Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990
I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.
David Brin
A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.
David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology.
It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here?
Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
George Carlin
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain.
George Gordon, Lord Byron
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.
Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Henry David Thoreau
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
John Muir, 1913
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
Juvenal, Satires
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
 
 
 
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