Quotes on Earth Day

We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

The environment is everything that isn't me.