Just need some good quotes.
2007-03-02 18:26:06 · 5 answers · asked by Goku 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"Only when the last tree is gone and the last river polluted will we realize we can't eat money."
2007-03-02 20:17:34 · answer #1 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now, he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined, and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.” ... Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) Russian playwright and short-story writer
“Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.” ... Rachel Carson (1907 – 64) U.S. zoologist and marine biologist
“For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death.” ... Rachel Carson (1907 – 64) U.S. zoologist and marine biologist
“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” ... Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) U.S. president
2007-03-03 08:08:29 · answer #2 · answered by ~ alex ~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Meek shall inherit the earth.
Because, by then, nobody else will want it.
(To the tune of america the beautiful)
Oh beautiful, for smoggy skies, insecticided grain
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America America
Man sheds his waste on the.
And Hides the pines
with the billboard signs
From Sea to Oily Sea. -George Carlin
2007-03-02 19:48:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Check out Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" from the library. You'll find something in there.
2007-03-03 07:37:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sky is fallin, The sky is Fallin..
"Chicken Little"..
2007-03-02 18:32:21 · answer #5 · answered by Angus. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋