Earth Day Thoughts

Earth Day for 2011 is 4/22. There will be many related events happening all over the globe. A search online will bring up many sites offering information on these events as well as organizations who all year-round help our planet in some way. I encourage you to check some of them out.

It's nice to have a day to draw attention to Earth, and celebrate. Many people make an effort to do something on this one day- plant trees, pick up trash, or attend an event. The truth is, our planet, the place we all call home, needs us 365 days per year every single year!

Earth Day is a great day to begin though to help our planet if you haven't, or do something special or different if you already do regularly make an effort.

We live on a beautiful planet. It is our responsibility to help take care of it. This includes all that grows on it, the people who live on it, the water, the soil, etc. When we do not, we see animals and plants go extinct, people suffer and die, and nature responding in ways that we do not like.

I want to thank each one of you who has done something to make the world a better place.

Here are some quotes that I want to share with you today:

"Take care of the earth and she will take care of you." Author unknown

"When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves." David Orr

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home." Gary Snyder

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." Thomas Fuller

"Love the earth as you would love yourself." John Denver

"A Healthy Ecology is the Basis for a Healthy Economy." Claudine Schnieder

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." Marshall McLuhan

"We are partakers of a common nature, and the same causes that contribute to the benefit of one contribute to the benefit of another." William Godwin

Last but not least-

"Every day is Earth Day." Author Unknown