Here’s some quotes about going green that I found in my travels – definitely food for thought!
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.”
-Benjamin Franklin
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy…. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. ~Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958
Here’s some cool going green quotes found in magazines:
It wasn’t the Exxon Valdez captain’s driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. ~Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, 25 February 1990
Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted in Time
Little did Thoreau know about how we would clutter up the skies with satellites and space junk when he wrote this:
“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
-Henry David Thoreau
I find the Native American quotes for going green to be probably the most interesting:
“Only after the last tree has been cut down…the last river has been
poisoned…the last fish caught, only then will you find that money cannot be
eaten.”
- Cree Indian Prophesy
“The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.”
- Native American Proverb
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
-Native American Proverb
