Wednesday May 18th 2011

Earth Thought for the Day

“Earth and sky, woods and fields,
lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea,
are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us
more than we can never learn from books.”

~ John Lubbock
(1834-1913)

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Tuesday May 17th 2011

Earth Thought for the Day

“Forests are the ‘lungs’ of our land,
purifying the air and
giving fresh strength to our people.”

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882-1945)

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Monday May 16th 2011

Earth Thought for the Day

“Our choices at all levels
individual, community, corporate and government,
affect nature. And they affect us.”

~ David Suzuki
(1936-)

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Sunday May 15th 2011

Earth Thought for the Day

“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking
if mankind is to survive.”

~ Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)

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Saturday May 14th 2011

Earth Thought for the Day

“Walk lightly in the spring;
Mother Earth is pregnant.”

~ Native American Proverb
Kiowa

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Friday May 13th 2011

Earth Thought for the Day

“When a man wantonly destroys
one of the works of man we call him a vandal.
When he destroys one of the works of god
we call him a sportsman.”

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

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Thursday May 12th 2011

Earth Thought for the Day

“In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially,
at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate,
with the population doubling every 40 years,
by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.”

~ Stephen Hawking
(1942-)

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