Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness

Cleanliness is next to Godliness” teaches us to keep our surroundings clean and green. Efforts to make my city a clean city will be seriously endless. I can make every possible effort to make my city a clean and green city. I can surely visit several barren lands and try to grow some plants and trees. I would frequently report the media about the efforts done to make my city - a clean and green city so that I can spread awareness.
I can plan to make some groups mainly ‘eco-friendly clubs' to make my city a better place to live. We, in a group, can arrange some awareness sessions, lectures, seminars, workshops, contests, etc… to increase the contribution of people towards the environment.
I can plan some weekends which can include programmes like cleaning the society, separating the dry and wet garbage. We can also request people to not pollute the river water by washing utensils, clothes or also request them to keep the rivers clean.
I can go to the river side and spread awareness to install an eco-friendly Ganpati idol which will not pollute the river. I can also make a small tank or pool by the riverside, so that instead of putting the flowers in a large water body i.e. river, we can prefer putting it into the tank which can be regularly cleaned.
We can request the Municipal Corporation for spittoons by the road-side so that people don’t spit anywhere they wish. Public dustbins can be kept so that the garbage doesn’t lie anywhere. PCMC toilets can be constructed near every landmark so that the people shouldn’t defecate anywhere by the road side.Like the Olympic motto is stronger, higher faster, I can try to make a strong team with high aims and objectives which can help the society as soon as possible. God created the beautiful world, he expects that the hands given by him to us should always work towards beautifying his creation.

How will you make your city clean and green?

It is aptly said that cleanliness is next to godliness. One should be alarmed at the increasing numbers of factories polluting the environment and improper waste disposal. The amount of garbage filling the streets is beyond tolerable limits. So it is high time that everyone should take necessary steps in making the city clean and green. When every individual contributes what he can towards the environment, there will be wonders happening. As a student, I will first inculcate the habit of throwing waste only in dustbins , within myself as well as my family and friends. Littering the roads makes the city very polluted and this can be reduced when people are aware not to do so. Ofcourse stricter regulations and laws are necessary. But as a student , I will do my best in spreading awareness on the necessity to keep our environment clean and green. Students can form teams and spread awareness on how to keep our places clean , explain about the diseases like malaria, cholera that may arise in filthy places.

People should be educated on the differences between biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste and they should be taught on how to dispose them properly. Proper waste disposal will help making the city cleaner. To make the city cleaner, students should take on the cause of planting saplings. Every student should start growing saplings at home or in nearby environment. One should also take care of things like watering etc. In these days when deforestation is beyond control , individual measures like this is necessary. With the help of schools and local municipality, students should also distribute saplings to people and encourage them to join in this green movement.

Students should know , follow and advocate the 3R rule - reduce, reuse , recycle. One should realise the lack of resources today and should reduce the usage of unnecessary luxuries. A careless attitude of neglecting things and disposing as waste can...

These environment quotes are some of the most popular or most profound. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to. - Terri Swearingen
One planet, one experiment. - Edward O. Wilson

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. - Barry Commoner

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. - Gaylord Nelson

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. - Stewart Udall

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. - Denis Hayes

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash. - Bill Maher

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The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. - Stephanie Mills

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. - Aldo Leopold

What is the use of a house if you don't have a decent planet to put it on? - Henry David Thoreau

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. - Nigerian Chief
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. - Albert Einstein
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. - E. Knight

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers. - Satish Kumar

Sustainability is about ecology, economy and equity.- Ralph Bicknese

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down. - Jack Handey

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. - Carl Sagan

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. - John Muir

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. - Ross Perot

The supreme reality of our time is ...the vulnerability of our planet. - John F. Kennedy

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong. - John Muir

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. - Aldo Leopold

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth. - Julia Butterfly Hill

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it. - Paul McCartney

The best friend of earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth. - Frank Lloyd Wright

A person who cares about the earth will resonate with its purity. - Sally Fox 484

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human. - Jack Nicholson

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for. - Margaret Mead

The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives. - Chinese Proverb

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! - Dennis Weaver

Everyone who considers themselves a realist will be forced to justify their behavior in light of their contribution toward the preservation of the environment. - Ernst von Weizacker
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. - Stewart Udall
Sustainability requires maintaining life-supporting natural capital in order for our socioeconomic goals to be met. - Warren Flint

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. - Rachel Carson

Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans. - George Holland

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done -- challenging us to a realization of a new humanity. - Jean Houston

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. - Gandhi

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'. - Luther Standing Bear

Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the people of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. - Chief Seattle

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. - Thomas Fuller

Man maketh a death which Nature never made. - Edward Young

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death. - Tom McMillan

We've embarked on the beginning of the last days of the age of oil. - Mike Bowlin, Chairman, ARCO

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- HG Wells
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. - Ilya Ehrenburg

When the soil disappears, the soul disappears. - Ymber Delecto

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. - Chinese Proverb

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. - Luther Standing Bear

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. - James G. Watt

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
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. - Ralph Nader
When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded. - Pat Brown

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. - Paul Brooks

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. - Sir George Porter

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. - Aldo Leopold

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. - Marya Mannes
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. - Dennis Gabor
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? - Charles A. Lindbergh

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. - Ansel Adams

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. - Unknown

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. - David Gerrold

Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. - Luther Burbank

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. - William Rathje
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. - Carl Sagan
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. - Rachel Carson

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. - Mahatma Gandhi

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. - Gil Stern

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. - David Ehrenfeld

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. - Rene Dubos

Waste is a tax on the whole people. - Albert W. Atwood

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. - Anton Chekhov
...most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance. - Yvon Chouinard
A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them. - Eugene M. Poirot

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. - Rachel Carson

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future. - Al Gore

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. - Ayn Rand

In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity. - Tom Szaky

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent. - E. F. Schumacher

Appreciating Nature and the Environment Quotes
What good is taking about Nature if we don't take the time to appreciate the environment? Quotes like these are just a simple reminder of why it all matters.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. - Robert Lyn

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. - Henry David Thoreau

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can never learn from books. - John Lubbock

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. - Chief Luther Standing Bear

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. - Henry David Thoreau

A Green Environment for Now and the Future
In the past, the major need of people in this world was arable land. Man did not have to think about animate things. However, now the adverse effects on forests through over-population and the development of various chemical elements in the atmosphere have led to irregular rainfall and global warming. This global warming has brought changes in climate, including making perennial snow mountains melt, thereby adversely affecting not only human beings but also other living species.

This dangerous situation is being taken very seriously by the world. In the past the perennial snow mountains of Tibet had very thick snow. Older people say that these mountains were covered with thick snow when they were young and that the snows are getting sparser which may be an indication of the end of the world. It is a fact that climate change is a slow process taking thousands of years to realize its effect. Living beings and plant life on this planet also undergo change accordingly. Man's physical structure too changes from generation to generation along with the change in climatic conditions.

Because of the growth in the population, a large number of trees are cut for fuel, and to reclaim land for agricultural cultivation. In the case of Tibet, too, the Chinese have now destroyed its ancient trees in a similar way to shaving a man's hair off. This is not simply the destruction of trees but it also means harming what belongs to the Tibetans. Similarly, the continuing decline in forests in many parts of the world, including America, is adversely affecting the already changing global climate, thus upsetting the lives, not only of mankind, but also of all living beings. Similarly, the harmful effect on the atmosphere brought about by chemical emissions in industrialized countries is a very dangerous sign. Although this is a new thing for us Tibetans, the world is paying a lot of attention to this problem. It is the responsibility of us, who speak of the welfare of all sentient beings, to contribute towards this.

Since I too have a responsibility in this matter, (i.e. to work for the protection of the environment and to see that the present and future generations of mankind can make use of refreshing shade and fruits of trees), I bought these seeds of fruit-bearing" trees with part of my Nobel Peace Prize money to be distributed now, to people representing different regions (all the continents of the world are represented here) during this Kalachakra gathering. These seeds have been kept near the Kalachakra mandala for purification and blessings. Since these include seeds of apricot, walnut, papaya, guava, etc., suitable for planting under varying geographical conditions, experts in respective places 'should be consulted on their planting and care and, thus, you all should see my sincere aspiration is fulfilled.

A Green Environment for Now and the Future
In the past, the major need of people in this world was arable land. Man did not have to think about animate things. However, now the adverse effects on forests through over-population and the development of various chemical elements in the atmosphere have led to irregular rainfall and global warming. This global warming has brought changes in climate, including making perennial snow mountains melt, thereby adversely affecting not only human beings but also other living species.

This dangerous situation is being taken very seriously by the world. In the past the perennial snow mountains of Tibet had very thick snow. Older people say that these mountains were covered with thick snow when they were young and that the snows are getting sparser which may be an indication of the end of the world. It is a fact that climate change is a slow process taking thousands of years to realize its effect. Living beings and plant life on this planet also undergo change accordingly. Man's physical structure too changes from generation to generation along with the change in climatic conditions.

Because of the growth in the population, a large number of trees are cut for fuel, and to reclaim land for agricultural cultivation. In the case of Tibet, too, the Chinese have now destroyed its ancient trees in a similar way to shaving a man's hair off. This is not simply the destruction of trees but it also means harming what belongs to the Tibetans. Similarly, the continuing decline in forests in many parts of the world, including America, is adversely affecting the already changing global climate, thus upsetting the lives, not only of mankind, but also of all living beings. Similarly, the harmful effect on the atmosphere brought about by chemical emissions in industrialized countries is a very dangerous sign. Although this is a new thing for us Tibetans, the world is paying a lot of attention to this problem. It is the responsibility of us, who speak of the welfare of all sentient beings, to contribute towards this.

Since I too have a responsibility in this matter, (i.e. to work for the protection of the environment and to see that the present and future generations of mankind can make use of refreshing shade and fruits of trees), I bought these seeds of fruit-bearing" trees with part of my Nobel Peace Prize money to be distributed now, to people representing different regions (all the continents of the world are represented here) during this Kalachakra gathering. These seeds have been kept near the Kalachakra mandala for purification and blessings. Since these include seeds of apricot, walnut, papaya, guava, etc., suitable for planting under varying geographical conditions, experts in respective places 'should be consulted on their planting and care and, thus, you all should see my sincere aspiration is fulfilled.

Look Outside, see the trees
Watch the flowers in the breeze
Things won't be like this in a year or two
If polluting is all we do
Seize the night
Seize the day
Things won't always be this way
Thousands of people are dying
In the night you hear children crying
Let's stop the war
Our people are sore
The world can't help itself
Who cares about your wealth
Help me to help you
Show the world what you can do.

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