Select one of the quotes below. In three or more sentences explain why you selected the quote, what you think the author meant and how you plan on spending Earth Day. Make sure you tell what number quote you are responding to.
1. 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
2. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
3. Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society
9. 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
10. 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
source: http://www.quotegarden.com/earth-day.html
I am doing number 10 . The reason is because it makes sense that we would not eat money. I think this is a good message to those people who run the paper factories. I think they could learn to recycle alot more. They could actualy take the time to read some type of manual and learn how to recycle, because they're tearring up the ozone layer.
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DeleteThank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau.I think it is good that men cant fly because if we fly to high we could reach space. Also with out a space suit you could die.That is why i thank god that we cant fly
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ReplyDelete(3. Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau) i think this one is is the best one because if their is waist or trash every ware then that can lead to global warming faster. I also liked the one that said
( 10. 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) I like this one because it is pointing out we have to use resorces more wisely.
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ReplyDeletewe do not inherit the earth form our ancestors we borrow it from our children i think that before earth day the earth was polluted already before i was born how can our ancestor borrow it from us.
Joshua reyes53 i pick number10 because its true.Another reason im picking it is because its true you cant money. another reason i liked was because it talks about what we acutally do.
ReplyDeleteBrianna berry 53 The quote i picked was the 1st one . I picked it because to me its like its saying more trees have to grow more animals have to be born . I plan on spending earth day by cleaning up after my self , and picking up trash if i see any.
ReplyDeletei chose quote 10 i like quote 10 because mr.starr also has this quote in his room wall this quote reminds me of helping earth.i plan to spend this earth day by cleaning and picking up trash
ReplyDeleteI choose #10 because in Mr.Starr has a little poster that has the same writing that #10 had. I plan to help earth is by reusing your water bottles when you go to school. Also I"ll will use the same paper on the back. Litzy Rodriguez 53
ReplyDeleteI choose number 4. I choose number 4 because if we pollut the air the birds will die. Pollution can hare us to because we berth the air. I think the author meant that insted of driveing to ride a bike. I plan on spending earth day to pick up trasth and any other things I can find.
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DeleteI pick number 10. pick number 10 because I can understand that quote the most out of all 10 quotes.That quote meant we should appreciate what we have on earth and we have a lot and we don't.Some people don't understand that every thing cost money and don't appreceate all the things we have that cost so much money. Realating to thins quote what I would do on earth day would be will be thanks full for what I have and and do what I can for earth and what can do to help it also.
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I choose #10 because the qoute means that we should be happy of we of got.We should help the earth instead of asking we should just help instead of waiting until someone to tell you to help.We dont have to wait until our earth is a waiste land we should pick up the trash we see on the ground.We should help the earth. Yeimmy Pineda sec.53
ReplyDeleteI chose #3 because god has been giving us everything we need to live. So we should be happy of what we have. we need the earth to live because it has an air so if we lost it i do not know were we would go or live so we need the earth so thank god for all he has done. Fernando Amaya section 51
ReplyDeleteif the last 3 trees are not there the animals are not goint too eat.
ReplyDeleteSarah Salazar Mod 53 I choose quote number three because god made plants animals and insects he named this all happen and made us. Another reason I chose this quote because when god did that he made earth have air so we can breathe. Also because for life on our planet.
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ReplyDeleteResponse 10 is trying to tell us that the earth is here to help us survive so treat it with care. How I would spend earth day is by recycling plastic bottles and paper.
I selected quote #1 because what it says is true.Whatever we do effects the earth in more ways than one.It says that if we do something that hurts the earth we are only hurting ourselves even more.For earth day i went to the university of maryland.
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I select quotation number 2 because it talks about protecting the earth.If we borrowed earth from our children then we will preserve it and keep it safe for our children . On earth day I will pick up cans for recycling to protect the environment.
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