What Is The Use Of A House If You Haven't Got a Tolerable Planet to Put It On? ~ Henry David Thoreau

Well said, Mr. Thoreau. There is no shortage of green wisdom out there. The funny thing is that it started thousands and thousands of years ago and we are still grappling with it today. Here are some of my favorites:

Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know. ~ Aunt Bee Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. ~ Author Unknown

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. ~ Thomas Edison

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan, 1964

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them." ~ U Thant, speech, 1970

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. ~ Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962

"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed" ~ Chinese Proverb

One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England. ~ Glen T. Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, speech, Argonne National Laboratory, 1969

Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. ~ Quoted in Time

This is a beautiful planet and not at all fragile. Earth can withstand significant volcanic eruptions, tectonic cataclysms, and ice ages. But this canny, intelligent, prolific, and extremely self-centered human creature has proven himself capable of more destruction of life than Mother Nature herself....We've got to be stopped. ~ Michael L. Fischer, Harper's July 1990

We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to. ~ Terri Swearinger

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