Can you believe 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day?
Yep, it’s true. According to EarthDay.org, back in 1970 a young activist named, Denis Hayes, along with his team of 85 led events and demonstrations promoting the need for a healthy and sustainable world on April 22. Their activities inspired 20 million Americans – which was 10% of the entire American population at the time. Soon after this, they decided to name this day, Earth Day.
This year’s theme for Earth Day is Global Climate. To celebrate the big day, we here at RIZZARR gathered some thought-provoking quotes on the importance of taking care of our beautiful planet. We all have a responsibility to take care of the world and to make it a better place. Read these quotes below that prove why we shouldn’t take this responsibility lightly on Earth Day or any day of the year.
THOUGHT-PROVOKING QUOTES
1. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ~Mother Teresa
2. “Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?” ~Walt Disney
3. “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” ~Gandhi
4. “What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” ~Henry David Thoreau, Familiar Letters
5. “We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
6. “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. ” ~Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary
7. “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
8. “How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can’t destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don’t they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?” ~Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone
9. “The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.” ~John Paul II
10. “ “When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.” ~Martin Keogh, Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World
11. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” ~Gandhi
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