2017 Earth Day Activities and Ideas
When is Earth Day 2017? This observance always falls on April 22. On Earth Day, enjoy the tonic of fresh air, contact with the soil, and companionship with nature! Walk through the woods in search of emerging wildflowers and green moss. Go outside, no matter what the weather!
When is Earth Day 2017? This observance always falls on April 22. On Earth Day, enjoy the tonic of fresh air, contact with the soil, and companionship with nature! Walk through the woods in search of emerging wildflowers and green moss. Go outside, no matter what the weather!
EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES AND IDEAS
Celebrate Earth Day!
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More solar instead of mineral oil, Low-Carbon
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Plant wildflowers! See our article, Wild About Wildflowers.
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Go native! Plants thrive when they’re natural to your area. See our article on natural landscaping.
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Bring nature into the garden with plants that attract butterflies.
- Try an organic vegetable garden. Here are tips on organic seed-starting.
- Conserve water. See our tips on a water-wise garden.
EARTH DAY QUOTES AND POETRY
The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
The plants suck in the earth and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair.
–Abraham Cowley
The “green things
growing” whisper me
Of many
an earth-old mystery.
–Eben Eugene Rexford
Summer, fall, winter,
spring,
The
seasons rotate as each brings
Its
special beauty to this Earth of ours.
Winter’s
snow and summer’s flowers;
Frozen
rivers will flow come spring,
There
is a renewal of everything.
–Edna Frohock
While the bright radiant
sun in centre glows,
The
earth in annual motion round it goes;
At the
same time on its own axis reels,
And
gives us change of seasons as it wheels.
–The 1793 Old Farmer’s Almanac
O Spring-time
sweet!
The
whole Earth smiles, thy coming to greet.
–------Love & Solar 2017,04, 22
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