Maria Cornejo Quotes

Celebrate Earth Day every day.

EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.

Shouldn't every day be Earth Day? I mean, what are our options?

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

A second key area where you are called to make a contribution is in showing concern for the environment. This is not only because this country, more than many others, is likely to be seriously affected by climate change. You are called to care for Creation not only as responsible citizens, but also as followers of Christ!

Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on.

Perseverance is my biggest lesson. When I started to get involved in environmental protection some years ago, my people did not take it seriously and they never considered it important. But today, people look at what I do and they truly recognize those efforts, and eventually they join you as "environmental activists" too!

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.

I love a challenge and saving the Planet seems like a good one.

Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons.

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.

I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"

Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet.

There is no planet B. We have to take care of the one we have

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

There are so many things that we love. Whatever it is, there's a lot of really important things that affect how we live our lives, the simplicity of our life, so we love organizations that help make the planet cleaner and healthier, a place where you can be more connected.