Earth Day Sunday is a semi-religious holiday that some churches in the United States celebrate on the Sunday before Earth Day. The day is to raise awareness of the issue of the environment. Earth Day Sunday is also known as Earth Sunday.
Famous quotes containing the words earth, day and/or sunday:
“But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
““If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be handled with gloves or long poles. One must make one’s self a part of it. If virtue won’t answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington’s day as it is now, and always will be.””
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“that Sunday in July
when we were young and did not look
into the abyss,
that God spot.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)