If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother – Lin Yutang

Mothers are all slightly insane – J.D. Salinger

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: “Checkout Time is 18 years – Erma Bombeck

The phrase “working mother” is redundant – Jane Sellman

My mom said she learned how to swim. Someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. That’s how she learned how to swim. I said, ‘Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim’ – Paula Poundstone

I’m a mother with two small children, so I don’t take as much crap as I used to – Pamela Anderson

The earth is what we all have in common – Wendell Berry

A day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth‘s natural environment. The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. The first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the City of Saint Francis, patron saint of ecology. Earth Day was first observed in San Francisco and other cities on March 21, 1970, the first day of Spring. This day of nature’s equipoise was later sanctioned in a Proclamation signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations where it is observed each year. About the same time a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. While this April 22 Earth Day was focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations.^[1][2] Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network,^[3] and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year.^[4] Numerous communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues. In 2009, the United Nations designated April 22 International Mother Earth Day. ^{– Wikipedia}

Earth Day was created by Sen. Gaylord Nelson to bring awareness to environmental issues which were not being addressed in the political arena. In the spring of 1970, Nelson organized a nationwide grassroots demonstration to further promote conservation involvement and awareness; the first official Earth Day was born. These efforts led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. […]

I went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in – John Muir