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AnnoyingQuote: "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree." - Joyce Kilmer
"We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is." - William Vogt, Road to Survival, 1948
"Arguments are to be avoided. They are always vulgar and often convincing." - Charles Darwin
"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it is the grain of sand in your shoe." - Unknown
Happy Earth Day! --Robyn, 2004/04/22 12:41 PST
"The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future genebrations whose words of thanks will not be heard." - Gaylord Nelson, Former governor of Wisconsin, and founder of Earth Day
Quote from the "other" Earth Day Founder --Robyn, 2004/04/22 12:51 PST
"All individuals and institutions have a mutual responsibility to act as Trustees of Earth, seeking the choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, foster peaceful progress, awaken the wonder of life, and realize the best potential for the future of the human adventure." - John McConnell?, the other found of Earth Day
The tale of TWO Earth Days --Robyn, 2004/04/22 12:58 PST
Read the tale of the two Earth Days: http://www.solcomhouse.com/earthday.htm Or even of THREE: http://www.themesh.com/tr11.html
"California's water system might have been invented by a Soviet bureaucrat on an LSD trip." --Peter Passel, New York Times, February 27, 1991
Water flows uphill towards money. ~Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986
"Man, Despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication and many accomplishments, owes the fact of his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains." -Anonymous
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