Earth Day is today, and it is important for everybody to take an interest in it.

At The Daily Eastern News, we encourage everyone in the community to embrace the holiday.

Throw away your trash instead of just leaving it out.

If something needs to be recycled, actually take the time to recycle it as opposed to throwing it away in the trash.

We all share this planet, and it has to be maintained through our lifetimes, our children’s lifetime and their children’s lifetime.

While we are here, yes, we have a responsibility to maintain the earth, but do not take Earth Day as just a big spring cleaning session.

Take time out of your day to become acquainted with someone new and be a friend to someone in need.

Let’s respect the Earth as a whole, and also make an effort to get along and spread peace because there is no Earth without inhabitants.

All of the friends, family, acquaintances and even enemies make up the Earth.

Without the people, the Earth is nothing. So, we should take a moment to be thankful for everyone on this planet and not just the planet itself.

Earth Day should be more focused on the love and respect of people and our mutual connection to the Earth because we all inhabit it.

All people contribute to the manipulation and pollution of the land, because the surface serves as a platform for our entire way of life.

We have a planet that holds the keys to all of our necessities.

There are fresh bodies of water to drink from, and the land that possesses the ability to plant and grow food.

If properly taken care of, the Earth can take care of its inhabitants.

However, if those on Earth do not care about one another or enough to take care of the planet, it could become easy to let Earth slowly wither away and become and desolate wasteland that does not create life.

By no means does this mean the end of the world, but by not taking the time to educate yourself about the planet, we run the risk of doing something that could hurt us all in the future.

Be aware of your environment and understand the planet is a living and breathing thing.

The planet should be nurtured because it is a delicate thing, and it should be treated as such.

So in celebration of Earth Day, we invite you to recycle and learn about the planet and which you live.

Plant a tree if you can and help breathe more life into the world.

It is very important that everyone should understand that we can only live as long as the Earth is living. The Earth is us and we are the Earth.

The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News