There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy…. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973
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, A Sand County Almanac
A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. ~Author Unknown
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ~Francis Bacon
Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. ~Author Unknown
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ~Ross Perot
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855
Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom – and lakes die. ~Gil Stern
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. ~Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. ~E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~ Rachel Carson ~
For in the true nature of things,
if we rightly consider,
every green tree is far more glorious
than if it were made of gold and silver. ~
~ Martin Luther King ~
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way
much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler,
for this time the war is with ourselves.
We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
~ Al Gore ~
