Quotations for Earth Day

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.  ~A Chieftan from Nigeria


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


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

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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.  ~Henry David Thoreau


There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.  ~Robert Orben


I'm not an environmentalist.  I'm an Earth warrior.  ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990


Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.  ~Bill Vaughn, quoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987


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 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 ~John Muir, 1913, in Linnie Marsh Wolfe, ed., John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir


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


A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.  If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally.  Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power.  His fairness.  His very existence.  But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple.  She never claimed conceited omnipotence.  She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves.  To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge.  Go play outside.  Go get a job.  Or, better yet, lend me a hand.  I have no time for idle whining.  ~David Brin


Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.  ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963


Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society


Humankind has not woven the web of life.  We are but one thread within it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  All things are bound together.  All things connect.  ~Chief Seattle, 1855


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


My troubles, although some arise from inside,
Are mostly from parasites perched on my hide,
Who squabble and bicker and kick up a din,
Or fire off their pop-guns and pepper my skin,
Or yelp at each other and threaten to fight;
My life very often has been far from bright,
But all things considered my chances are fair,
To see many happy returns of the year.
~Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander (c.1890–1953), "The Old Identity," in The New Zealand Railways Magazine, 1930 January 1st  [says Old Father Earth —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]


After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world.  ~Pam Shaw


Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir


Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
~George Carlin


Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.  ~Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990


Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.  ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978


It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here?  ~Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989


Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.  ~Juvenal, Satires

Inspiring Happiness Quotes

1. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ~ Omar Khayyam

2. “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” ~ Stacey Charter

3. “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,

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4. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

5. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

6. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” ~ John Lennon

7. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” ~ Oscar Wilde

8. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” ~ Alice Walker

9. “Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” ~ William Feather

10. “You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace.” ~ Ernie Banks

11. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” ~ Andy Rooney

12. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley

13. “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” ~ Douglas Adams

14. “Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton

15. “True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~ Helen Keller

16. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” ~ Eskimo Proverb

18. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” ~ Helen Keller

19. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ~ Epictetus

20. “To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” ~ Mary Stuart

21. “If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.” ~ Maurice Chevalier

22. “Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.” ~ Ayn Rand

23. “There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” ~ Anthony de Mello

24.“It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.” ~ Adrian Grenier

Uplifting Quotes To Stop You Feeling Blue

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
– Jimmy Dean

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
 – Chinese proverb

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Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.
– Bernice Johnson Reagon

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
– Mark Twain

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window or break down the door.
– Brooke Shields

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.
– Mario Fernandez

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
– Bono

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
–  Dale Carnegie

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’
– Mary Anne Radmacher

Good Morning Quotes for Her

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus a day so I never have to live without you."
– A.A. Milne

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am with you."
– Roy Croft

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“Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal brooks, with silken lines and silver hooks."
– John Donne

“If I knew I would be so happy one day, I would have searched for you harder and found you before so that I could spend more time with you."
– Sal Dormant

“I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I’ve ever waited for this long."
– Frank Ocean

“I am entirely yours that if I might have all the world given me, I could not be happy but in your love."
– The Duke of Marlborough

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“Come live in my heart and pay no rent."
– Samuel Lover
“Every girl/woman in the world has flaws. Instead of focusing on your flaws when you look in a mirror, focus on the parts of you that you love; try to do this every morning. You will ooze confidence all day long."
– Chelan Simmons

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
– Erich Fromm

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
– Marcus Aurelius

23 Best Inspirational Quotes about Family

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
— John Bowring

Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.
— Michael J. Fox

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs,
and returns home to find it.
— George Moore

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Family is the most important thing in the world.
— Princess Diana

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
— Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
— David Ogden Stiers

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family:
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
— Jane Howard

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
— Barbara Bush

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.
— Chinese Proverb

My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.
— Bobby Darin

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood,
but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
— Richard Bach

To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.
— Chinese proverb

One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.
— Robert Byrd

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice.
It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
— Reinhold Niebuhr

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
— Lee Iacocca

He that raises a large family does, indeed,
while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow;
but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
— Benjamin Franklin

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.
— Barbara Bush

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!
— Albert Einstein

A man should never neglect his family for business.
— Walt Disney

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
— Confucius

There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
— Willie Stargell

When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.
— Guy Lafleur

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
— Andre Maurois

Positive Life Quotes To Live By

Here are Positive Life Quotes To Live By

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
– Dennis P. Kimbro

"There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures."
- Josiah Gilbert Holland

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
- William James

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me."
- Erma Bombeck

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket."
 - Will Rogers

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
– Sydney Harris

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
– Ray Kroc

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
– Lao Tzu

“You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.”
– English Proverb

“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
– Winston Churchill

“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

“The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.”
– Vince Lombardi

“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
– John F. Kennedy

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”
– Jack Canfield

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
– Carl Bard

“Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.”
– Unknown

“Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
– Arthur C. Clarke

“Speak less than you know; have more than you show.”
– William Shakespeare

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
– Thomas Edison

Quotes And Sayings About Woodworking

Quotes And Sayings About Woodworking - quotes about life

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.... Both are very hard work. Writing something is almost as hard as making a table. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Both are full of tricks and techniques. Basically very little magic and a lot of hard work... ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Woodworking is a most satisfying pastime, so varied and multifaceted you will never complete the twin processes you have undertaken: acquiring tools and learning how to use them. You have begun a lifetime pursuit.
~Michael Dunbar, "Essential Tools"

The feel and beauty of finely crafted wood…the refreshing smell of your workshop…the absorbing joy of cutting and joining that makes the hours race by… These are the reasons you love woodworking.
 ~Jack Neff, Make Your Woodworking Pay for Itself, 1996


Woodworking gives me something useful to do when I'm feeling puny and it takes my mind off my troubles.
 ~Gary McCarthy, Yellowstone Thunder, 2011 (Quinn Wallace)


The best carpenters make the fewest chips.
~English proverb, c.1500s


The civil law cannot provide but by common measures... all their rules are made by as common a measure as they can, and they are the best rules that have the fewest exceptions: the best Carpenters make the fewest chips: but some there must be.
~Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or The Rule of Conscience, 1659


[W]ood supplies a soothing warmth that no other fuel can provide, encouraging family and friends to gather around a roaring fire for pleasant conversation. Many romances have blossomed in front of a flickering fireplace — just one more wonderful way that wood warms you.
~Tim Clark, The Old Farmer's Almanac 2015 (Farmer's Calendar, November 2014)


Woodworking matters. It's more than a pastime or hobby—being a woodworker means that you know the satisfaction and pride that comes from using your hands and mind to build beautiful, functional objects, and that you're as interested in the process as the outcome. Amid the speed and chaos of the modern world, woodworking gives us a place where we can slow down, pay attention, and take the time to do things right.
~Aimé Ontario Fraser, Your First Workshop: A Practical Guide to What You Really Need, 2005


Whether made into a wooden pillow or table,
wood with excellent fine grain is a guarantee of splendid poems,
and the composition of perfect documents.
~Liú Shèng (d. 113 BC),

I think objects made of wood by children, left to their own devices, if such there be, will assay ten percent wood, ninety percent nails. 

~Robert Paul Smith

It is a proverb wise and ancient,

Beware how you give any edge tool

Unto madmen that be insipient,

Unto a young child, and unto a fool.

~William Wager

'Tis dangerous meddling with edge-tools. 

~John Tatham

[E]dged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. 

~Agnes Reppllier

Blunt tools are sometimes found of use where sharper instruments would fail. 

~Charles Dickens

The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp... 

~Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass

In the elder days of Art,

Builders wrought with greatest care

Each minute and unseen part;

For the Gods see every where.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Builders"

Woodworking minus patience equals firewood.

 ~Author unknown

Woodworkers are knotty.

 ~Author unknown

A bad day woodworking is better than a good day working. 

~Author unknown