Thursday, January 7, 2010

Greenix Favorite Green Quotes



"Today's might oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground"
- Anonymous


"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world" - John Muir

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious taht if it were made of gold and silver" - Martin Luther

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them" - Bill Vaughn

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children"
- Native American Proverb

"For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death"
-Tom McMillan


"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun" -Ralph Nader

"Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature" - Dennis Gabor

"Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations" - David Gerrold

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition"
- Carl Sagan


"Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow" - Edwin Way Teale

"After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world"
- Pam Shaw


"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance" - Buddha

"Thank GOD, they cannot cut down the clouds!"
- Henry David Thoreau


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