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“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

“Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.”

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Author:Evo Morales

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

“There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.”

“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?”

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

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Book:The Essential Writings of Rousseau

Source: The Essential Writings of Rousseau

“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”

Source: The Words of Albert Schweitzer

“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.”

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”

“We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

“All of us humans have myriad other species to thank. Without them, we couldn't exist. It's that simple, and we can't afford to ignore them, anymore than I can afford to neglect my precious wife--nor the sweet mother Earth that births and holds us all. Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.”

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Author:Alan Weisman

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

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

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”

“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

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

“And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.”

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

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Author:Jane Goodall

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate!”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.”

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Book:My Tibet

Source: My Tibet

“Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears.”

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Book:Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound

Source: Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound

“To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.”

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .”

Source: The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner

“The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.”

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Author:Cormac McCarthy

“We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”

“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

“The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.”

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Book:Chief Seattle's Testimony

Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony

“...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.”

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Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

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

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Author:Chief Seattle

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

“Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.”

“Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down.”

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Author:Stephen Stills

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

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Author:Lady Bird Johnson

“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”

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Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.”

Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

“You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.”

Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.”

“If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.”

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Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon, there would have been no growth. It had to come to the centre where it had both the things in proper proportions to grow. In the same way a human being has to work out that you keep a moderation and a balance and understand not to go to extremes of anything. That balance you learn when you love someone.”

“I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.”

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