Can you identify what is different about this collection of quotes to celebrate the 44th anniversary of Earth Day?
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
– Jane Goodall
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead
“The threat to the planet is us. It’s actually not a threat to the planet – it’s a threat to us.”
– Margaret Atwood
“A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world’s best juices for ourselves—these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
– George Eliot
“My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”
– Maya Angelou
Here’s a hint about what’s different:
“We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.”
– Vandana Shiva
