Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental… — Alan Caruba Copy Share Image
Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and… — Pete McCloskey Copy Share Image
If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Today is Earth Day. Environmentalists spent the day drawing attention to the Earth, while the Earth just spent the day checking Facebook… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the… — Sharon Begley Copy Share Image
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
“Only the most arrogant, shortsighted, and spiritually bereft of our species would say that, at any cost to other species, we need… — Timothy Walker Copy Share Image
In 1970, as a 26 year-old, I joined in the effort in my home state of Massachusetts to organize for Earth Day.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand… — Thomas Alva Edison Copy Share Image
Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency,… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to… — Agnes Baker Pilgrim Copy Share Image
By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam… — Ulf Merbold Copy Share Image
Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Since the first Earth Day, the EPA has regulated lead out of paint, air, and gasoline. It started fuel-economy testing (and then… — Andrew R. Wheeler Copy Share Image
Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
