Green Group discussion

Each day... week... month... feel free to add, to write your own " quotes " to celebrate Earth Day.
The Ever-Green group Moderators

" And forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair " - Kahlil Gibran

" What, sir, would the people of the Earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce " - Marc Twain

" Earth laughs in flowers " - Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems " - Rainer Maria Rilke

"The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need — if only we had the eyes to see." -Edward Abbey, Down the River, 1982

" After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings. " - Richard Dawkins


" Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you...
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. " - John Muir

" It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. " - Rachel Carson

"What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Small Wonder: Essays)

"One Touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
- William Shakespeare ( Troilus and Cressida )

"He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essays, Second Series, 1844)

“ In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference ”
- Rachel Carson

" For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake -with our minds, hearts, and hands- to restore its abundance. It is said that where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire us with more hopefulness than that great, life-making sea -that singular, wondrous ocean covering the blue planet."
— Carl Safina

" The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein

" The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed. "
- Jacques- Yves Cousteau

"We were fluttering, wandering, longing creatures a thousand thousand years before the sea and the wind in the forest gave us words.
Now how can we express the ancient of days in us with only the sounds of our yesterdays?"
--Kahlil Gibran (Sand & Foam)

"In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is useful and necessary to cope with our everyday environment, but it is not a fundamental feature of reality. It is an abstraction devised by our discriminating and categorising intellect. To believe that our abstract concepts of separate ‘things’ and ‘events’ are realities of nature is an illusion."
--Frijof Capra (Tao of Physics)

"Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum." — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

“I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! more! — to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet.” -Sylvia Earle’s Wish

" Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something,” - Sylvia Earle

" The color of wind
planted artlessly
in an autumn garden " - Matsuo Basho