10 Things We Can Do to Help Save Our Planet:

• walk or bike instead of driving short distances
• use reusable bags when shopping
• turn-off appliances when not in use
• grow native plants in your yard
• use a broom instead of a vacuum, hose or blower
• recycle glass, paper and cans
• take the stairs
• use fluorescent light bulbs
• insulate your home
• utilize public transit whenever possible

"The wealth of this world isn't in the ground, it's all around us."
- Sigourney Weaver, Avatar

Surfrider Foundation

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

Cool ecological facts about California:

• Tallest tree in the world - Hyperion (379 ft.)
• Largest tree in the world - General Sherman (52,510 cu. ft.)
• Oldest living tree in the United States - Methuselah the Bristlecone Pine (4,800 years)
• Tallest mountain in the 48 states - Mount Whitney (14,505 feet)
• Lowest point in the United States - Badwater Basin (-282 ft.)
• Tallest waterfall in the United States - Yosemite Falls (2,425 ft.)
• Average annual rainfall - 66 inches (Redwood National Park) to 1.5 inches (Death Valley National Park)

"Better to shoot for the stars and miss by a mile than to aim for the dirt and hit it head on."
- Lorelle Bouwuis

Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps - Drum Corps International

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
- President Barack H. Obama

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
- Josh Billings

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
- Will Rogers

Huntington Dog Beach - Redondo Beach Dog Park - Centinela Feed & Pet Supplies

"Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be."
- George Santayana

"If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average."
- Leonard Louis Lerinson

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln

"If you can't fix it, Jack, you gotta stand it."
-Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain

"Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or, as we are conditioned to see it."
-Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein

Human Rights Campaign - The Trevor Project

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