A Quote A Day!

Here are some environmental quotes that can be associated with our daily lives:

• Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen

• I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990

• 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

• Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated

• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

• Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! ~Paul MacCready, Jr.

• 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

• Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. ~Horizon

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

• 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

• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980

• 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

• The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. ~Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

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