Self Pursuit Helping you grow, think, create and live a life of perpetual development.

 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

 

“There is enough for all.
The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.”
Bourke Coekran

Earth Day 2008 falls on Tuesday, April 22nd.

• Earth Day is a name used by two different observances held annually in the (northern) spring, both intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth’s environment.
• Earth Day is held each year to promote awareness of environmental issues.
• It’s a special day to learn about our planet and how to take care of it.
• Kids can visit various Earth Day crafts, coloring pages, and activities.

The first Earth Day was in 1970…

On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day. It was a time when cities were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire.

Now Earth Day is celebrated annually around the globe.

Through the combined efforts of the U.S. government, grassroots organizations, and citizens like you, what started as a day of national environmental recognition has evolved into a world-wide campaign to protect our global environment.

Earth Day has no central organizing force behind it, though several nongovernmental organizations work to keep track of the thousands of local events in schools and parks that mark the day.

Earth Day Quotes

• The earth is what we all have in common.
  ~Wendell Berry, Author, farmer, cultural critic, 1934 -
• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
  ~Mahatma Gandhi, Spiritual leader, political, 1869-1948
• As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.
  ~Margaret Laurence, Author, environmentalist, 1926-1987
• You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
  ~Hal Borland, Author, 1900-1978
• 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, Preservationist, 1838-1914
• For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature.  Now we’re beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990
• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.  ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977
• Take nothing but pictures.
  Leave nothing but footprints.
  Kill nothing but time.
  ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society
• 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
 
• Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values…. God made life simple.  It is man who complicates it.  ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader’s Digest, July 1972
• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.  ~Juvenal, Satires
• “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
  Margaret Mead