 EarthDay
April 22,
2001
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| The world has enough
for every man’s need but not enough for every
man’s greed. - Gandhi |
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Everyone thinks of
changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself. - Tolstoy |
| We
abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging
to us. When we see land as a community to which we
belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
-Aldo Leopold |
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| Earth Day Network |
World Wide Campaigns |
EarthDay
Energy Fast |
| Founded in 1970 by Senator Gaylord
Nelson, this particular celebration of the Earth and the
need for us to realize our responsibility in caring for
it, took off in popularity because of the immense grass
roots acceptance of the message and the importance. |
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If you step out of the radius
of your campfires you feel that you are brought face to
face with forces over which you have no control; you are
surrounded by handiwork that is not man's, by swarming
millions of creatures that live out their little lives
without the faintest reference to you. - Robert W.C.
Shelford, A Naturalist in Borneo |
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I realize that if I had to
choose, I would rather have birds than
airplanes.--Charles Lindbergh, First American pilot to
cross the Atlantic Ocean |
| If you are thinking one year
ahead, sow seed. If you are thinking 10 years ahead,
plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead,
educate the people. --Chinese proverb |
| Keep close to Nature's
heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb
a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit
clean. - John Muir |
The real miracle is not to
walk on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. -
Thich Nhat Hanh |
For in the end, we will save
only what we love, we will love only what we understand,
and we will understand only what we are taught. --Senegal
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| American
Child does the call of the wild Ever
sing through the midst of your dreams?
Does
it fly with the wind when you waken again?
When
it's gone do you know what it means?
Can
you picture the time when a man had to find
His
own way through an unbroken land
Before
the machine changed the blue and the green
Into
something you can't understand....
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Joe Henry, "American Child"
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It's
about time we start to see it The
Earth is our only home.
It's
about time we start to face it
We
can't make it here all alone
It's
about time we start to listen
To
the voices in the wind
It's
about Time
It's
about Changes
And
it's about Time!
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John Denver, "It's About Time"
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"You are in a position to make
things happen. Friends and neighbors will value the
chance to help improve their environment, and your
children and grandchildren will be the beneficiaries of
your hard work. So go ahead: act locally. You can make a
difference. - Andrew J. Falender, Executive Director -
Appalachian Mountain Club - 1992
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Whatever
befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters
of the earth We did not weave the web of life; We
are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the
web, We do to ourselves. . . - Chief Seattle |
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| Over recent decades,
too much has been exchanged for too little, under the
notion of the land having to pay for itself. In fact it
owes us nothing; it is we who are deeply indebted to the
land. - David M. Carroll, The Year of the Turtle |
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Only in the last quarter of my
life have we come to know what it means to be custodians
of the future of the Earth - to know that unless we care,
unless we check the rapacious exploitations of our Earth
and protect it, we are endangering the future of our
children and our children's children. We did not know
this before, except in little pieces, People knew that
they had to take care of their own...but it was not until
we saw the picture of the Earth, from the moon, that we
realized how small and how helpless this planet is -
something that we must hold in our arms and care for. -
Margaret Mead, March 21, 1977 |
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| Only to the white man was
nature a ‘wilderness’.-- Luther Standing Bear
(Oglala Sioux Chief) |
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Let everyone sweep in
front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
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Earth Day is the
first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of
nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar,
yet it transcends them all.--Margaret Mead |
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| Environmental Protection Timeline |
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| Things
are only worth what you make them worth. - Moliere |
| posted 3/01/01 |
