Earth Day Sayings

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

Look after mother earth as you would look after your child.
Byron Pulsifer

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

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. Bill Vaughn

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death.Tom McMillan

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. Elwyn Brooks White

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

Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. Stephanie Mills

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. Brooke Medicine Eagle

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

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

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining.
David Brin