Happy Earth Day!

I would like to share some Earth Day quotes:

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."  ~Native American Proverb

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."  ~Bill Vaughn, quoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987

"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."  ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977

"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints." ~Yellowstone National Park Hiking Brochure

"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."  ~Chief Seattle, 1855

"After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world."  ~Pam Shaw

"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."
~George Carlin

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money."  ~Cree Indian Proverb

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." ~Margaret Mead

"Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman." - Luther Burbank