Hi, urgent!!! need help , please?

Question

i have to give a speech on 'earth day'. its very important. can you give me some good quotes which i can include in my speech?

thanx!!!

Answer 1

Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find.  

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.  ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security.  Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad.  Otherwise what is there to defend?  ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985

Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.  ~Michel de Montaigne, translated

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.  ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.  ~Native American Proverb

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth.  We are all crew.  ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964

As you can see, people have been thinking about our environment for a long time; only recently have we started doing anything about it.