Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances."
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Earth Day
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Martin Luther
Theologian
"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
Carl Sagan
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
"There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
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"There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards."
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"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false."
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"There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more."
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"Forests are the lungs of our land."
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"A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum."
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"My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first."
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"I love not man the less, but Nature more."
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"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."
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"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
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"We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?"
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"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."
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"As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life."
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"Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man."
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"I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable."
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"Strange is our situation here upon earth."
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"I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today."
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"The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable."
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"Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on."
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"A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."
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