 EarthDay | |||||
| The world has enough for every man’s need but not enough for every man’s greed. - Gandhi |  | 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 | |||||
| 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. | 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 | ||||
 | 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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"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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| 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 | |||||
 | 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 | ||||
| Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’.-- Luther Standing Bear (Oglala Sioux Chief) |  | Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | |||
 | 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 |  | |||
| Environmental Protection Timeline | |||||
 Things are only worth what you make them worth. - Moliere | |||||
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posted 3/01/01 | |||||
