Quotes on Green Earth

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, _x000D_ For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. _x000D_ America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, _x000D_ And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

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.

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

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.

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.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.