1109 – “We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species.”

-Jane Goodall

1098 – “People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”

-Greta Thunberg

1064 – “It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

-Neil Armstrong

1016 – “Treat the Earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

-American Proverb [See Source Notes for Attribution]

972 – “The question is are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?”

-David Attenbrough

944 – “Once destroyed, Nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.”

-anonymous

882 – “The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. … Every good thing, great and small, needs defense.”

–John Muir

847 – “Why is it taking so long to believe that if we hurt nature, we hurt ourselves?”

–Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

839 – “Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can’t expect them to help protect and care for it.”

–David Suzuki

824 – “I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”

–The Lorax in Dr Seuss’ The Lorax

Happy Arbor Day!