The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.

Green Quotes

Here are some quotes from the famous and not-so-famous about why it’s important to care for our environment.

“Behold, my brothers, the spring has come. The earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love! Every seed is awakened and so has all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this land. My love of our native soil is wholly mystical.”
– Chief Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotaka), Hunkpapa Sioux (1831-1890)

“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 … So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.”
– John Muir

“Only after the last tree has been cut down…the last river has been poisoned…the last fish caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”
– Cree Indian Prophesy

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