Monday, February 9, 2009

Quotes on Environment

Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted in Time

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985

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

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982

I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers. ~Ymber Delecto

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1964

Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. ~Gil Stern

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. ~Charles Haas

When the soil disappears, the soul disappears. ~Ymber Delecto

In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine

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