A Cree Indian Poem
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught
will we realize that we cannot eat money.
Earth Day Quotes
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
In the beginning, God did weave,
A wondrous garden, for us to perceive.
Lush and bountiful, this sacred Earth,
A gift of life, of immeasurable worth.
Yet entrusted to us, a solemn duty,
To tend this haven with hearts that see.
For in our hands lies the power to impart,
A future where love and nature never part.
God's Garden Poem
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
We are stewards of this planet Earth
We are to take care, not target
We are responsible for land, water, and air
We must never take for granted but always care.
The air we breathe must be protected
People of the world are all connected.
The water that we need to drink
If polluted will definitely shrink.
We must also protect the land
Together we must stand hand in hand.
We owe this to our children of tomorrow
Don't leave them a world full of sorrow.
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
The three R's are reduce, reuse, and recycle
Implementing them is only sensible.
We must take care of this world of ours
Appreciate it all from air to the flowers.
If we choose to reduce we can
Use less by following a plan.
Rather than just consume
Which can lead to doom.
And if we look at things and reuse
We have nothing to lose.
Items don't have to be new
To bring use and a value.
If we implement recycle
We are allowing things to be double.
We can make different things
Rather than just being trash to bring.
So these 3 R's will help protect
Our planet, they will have an effect.
You make a difference in what you do
It is up to me and to you!
Recycling Quotes
Poet: Jane Yolen
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Each blade of grass,
Each honey tree,
Each bit of mud,
And stick and stone
Is blood and muscle,
Skin and bone.
And just as I
Need every bit
Of me to make
My body fit,
So Earth needs
Grass and stone and tree
And things that grow here
Naturally.
That's why we
Celebrate this day.
That's why across
The world we say:
As long as life,
As dear, as free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Special Occasion Poems & Quotes
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
During the month of April
Earth Day is celebrated at this time of year
The reason for it is to recognize
If we don't protect the earth, then there is reason for fear.
The warming of the sea
The pollution that is caused
For nature is contrary
And can destroy what currently is.
The planet needs to be preserved
To protect all families
Our health and livelihoods depend
On natural qualities.
Don't say you can't make a difference
Small things add up to big things
Picking up garbage in your neighborhood
If we all took action, a difference it would bring.
And taking action is not just for one day
We must think about the earth and what we do
What impact are you having to make every day be Earth day
Be conscious of that too!
April Poems
Poet: Charles Mair
There was a time on this fair continent
When all things throve in spacious peacefulness.
The prosperous forests unmolested stood.
For where the stalwart oak grew, there it lived
Long ages, and then died among its kind.
The hoary pines - those ancients of the earth,
Brimful of trends of the early world -
Stood thick on their own mountains unsubdued.
And all things else illumined by the sun.
Inland, or by the lifted wave, had rest.
The passionate or calm pageants of the skies
No artist drew; but in the auburn west
Innumerable faces of fair cloud
Vanished in silent darkness with the day.
The prairie realm - vast ocean's paraphrase -
Rich in wild grasses numberless, and flowers
Unnamed save in mute Nature's inventory.
No civilized barbarian trenched for gain.
And all that flowed was sweet and uncorrupt:
The rivers and their tributary streams,
Undammed, wound on forever, and gave up
Their lonely torrents of weird gulfs of sea.
And ocean wastes unshadowed by a sail
And all the wild life of this western world
Knew not the fear of man; yet in those woods -
There lived a soul more wild than barbarous;
A tameless soul - the sunburnt savage free -
Free, and untainted by the greed of gain:
Great Nature's man content with Nature's food.
