Happy Earth Day

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

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.
A Chieftan from Nigeria

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb

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

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Dennis Gabor

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

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

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

… do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.
Dave Foreman

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland, Sundial

There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.
Bourke Coekran