There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964

[Guest guest]

 

 

 

Good Morning Earth Warriors,

 

Happy Earth Day.....or as Edmund Muskie said before congressional hearings on

pollution, " Everyday is Earth Day " .

Just a note to tell you how much I appreciate sharing our time here

together.....may we all be nurtured by the beauty that surrounds us.....or

surround ourselves with the beauty of our mother ship.

 

Dawn

 

enjoy a few favortie quotes....some tongue in cheek

 

 

 

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. 

~Native American Proverb

 

 

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets

after them.  ~Bill Vaughn, quoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987

 

 

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for

going out, I found, was really going in.  ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed.,

John Muir, John of the Mountains:  The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

 

 

Take nothing but pictures.

Leave nothing but footprints.

Kill nothing but time.

~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society

 

 

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, 1855

 

 

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,

For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.

America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,

And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

~George Carlin

 

 

It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is

going on here?  ~Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in

National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989

 

 

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves,

that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.  ~Brooke

Medicine Eagle

 

 

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in

the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.  ~William

Shakespeare

 

 

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last

fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.  ~Cree Indian Proverb