A Quote by Pete Seeger

It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.

Pete Seeger

Quote Topics

Book Done Earth Environment Famous Famous Book Got Help I Realized Inherit Involved Job Live Main Me Meek New New York New Yorker Place Poisonous Pretty Read Realized Silent Silent Spring Something Soon Spring Still Then Thought Up Would Would Be Yorker

Quote Author

Pete Seeger
American - Musician
May 3, 1919 - January 27, 2014

I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

Sylvia Plath

Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget: The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.

Kelvin Mercer

Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.

Garrison Keillor

You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.