Some quotes for Earth Day:
It seems that where ever humans live, it is rare for there not to exist a tension between the land, the wild and the people. It is as if an essential aspect of being human is to be always in transition, a more or less disrupting force perpetually transforming the animal and plant communities within which we hope to coexist. We must be careful! -- Anonymous
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. -- Chief Seattle
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.ￃ? -- Cree Indian Proverb
The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace. -- Bourke Coekran
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. - John Muir
When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.ￃ? -- David Orr
The old Lakota was wise.ￃ? He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.ￃ? -- Chief Luther Standing Bear
When the soil disappears, the soul disappears.ￃ? -- Ymber Delecto
The earth is what we all have in common. To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. -- Wendell Berry
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction. -- Rachel Carson
The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World. Every tree sends its fibers forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind. . . . -- Henry David Thoreau
Happy Earth Day! And don't forget to come celebrate the Wind and Earth Day at the Washoe City nursery tomorrow between noon and 2 pm. Find out more.