Earth Day is observed every year on April 22 to highlight environmental dangers and show support for environmental conservation.
After New Year's Day and International Worker's Day, Earth Day is a secular festival observed globally. People disregard indications such as climate change, poor air quality, land degradation, acidic oceans, and ecological imbalances.
However, people and businesses are trying to make a big difference for the globe. These quotes will serve as a gentle reminder that we all share a duty to protect our natural world.
Inspirational Earth Day Quotes
These inspirational Earth Day quotes will intill a renewed interest in doing your best your nature.
"Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now." -Jackie Speier
"There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet." - Brooke Medicine Eagle
"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together; all things connect." - Chief Seattle
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries." - Jimmy Carter
"Today is Earth Day. I don't want to end the day without an acknowledgment of the wonder that we actually live here. Okay, there is so much terror seeping around every corner. But there is also beauty, creativity, and life. Look around, we are blessed to be here. Really. Blessed." - Danté Stewart
"Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs;
To the silent wilderness
Where the soul need not repress" -'The Invitation', Percy Bysshe Shelley
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." – Kahlil Gibran
"Let us permit Nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do." -Michel de Montaigne
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." -Marshall McLuhan
"Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise their children – and you can rest assured that I will aggressively protect that right, not just on Earth Day, but every day." -Eric Schneiderman
"A vibrant, fair, and regenerative future is possible — not when thousands of people do climate justice activism perfectly but when millions of people do the best they can." -Xiye Bastida
"Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it." -Charles A. Lindbergh
"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved." -Richard Rogers
"When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them." -Chief Seattle
"When we choose to protect others, we are also protecting ourselves. We cannot achieve climate justice without uplifting and supporting all communities." -Intersectional Environmentalist
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every person's need, but not every person's greed." -Gandhi
"I wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours." -Kurt Vonnegut
"Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity." -Eric Knight
"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children." -John James Audubon
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." -Mahatma Gandhi
Best Earth Day Quotes
Read some of the best Earth Day quotes from famous people below. These quotes will not fail to motivate you to do your best in protecting the Earth.
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." -Dan Quayle
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth." -Henry David Thoreau
"The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard." -Gaylord Nelson
"Earth laughs in flowers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, and running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris." -Edward Abbey
"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." -Bill Vaughn
Memorable Earth Day Quotes
These memorable Earth Day quotes will motivate and instill lasting memories about Mother Earth. Read the best of them below, and share them with close friends and family, to inspire a green thumb in everyone.
"As cheesy as it sounds, truly every day is Earth Day." -Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw
"It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members, and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live." - Dalai Lama
"Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place." -Scott Peters.
"Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option… they will become a necessity." -Fujio Cho
"We are on Earth to take care of life. We are on Earth to take care of each other." -Xiye Bastida
"We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do." -Barbara Ward
"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money." - Alanis Obomsawin
"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." -Benjamin Franklin
"This world is but a canvas to our imagination." -Henry David Thoreau
"Together, we can preserve the forest, securing this immense treasure for the future of all these our children." -Chico Mendes
"Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the Earth gives me daily, and I must return the gift." -Robin Wall Kimmerer
"The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations." -Pope John Paul II
"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy'." -Sylvia Plath
"For 200 years, we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death." -Tom McMillan
"The earth is what we all have in common." -Wendell Berry
"Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid." -Jon Stewart
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race." –Rachel Carson
Perfect Earth Day Quotes
These are some quotes from famous people about the need to be aware of climate change and global warming. As an individual, you can make a difference no matter where you are in life, so let's join hands and take steps to protect our resources.
"The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for." -Ernest Hemingway
"I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use." -Mother Teresa
"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs, there'd be no place to put it all." -Robert Orben
"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment." - David Attenborough
"Each of us can contribute, though. With our votes, our voices, our food choices, our skills and our dollars. We must overhaul both corporate practices and government policies. We must transform culture." -Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." -Albert Einstein
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods." -John Muir
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." -John Muir
"Building community around solutions is the most important thing. I am never going to give up working to protect and restore this magnificent planet. Every bit of habitat we preserve, every tenth of a degree of warming we prevent, really does matter. Thankfully, I'm not motivated by hope, but rather a desire to be useful." -Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
"When enough people come together, then change will come, and we can achieve almost anything. So instead of looking for hope — start creating it." -Greta Thunberg
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to Nature. It will never fail you." -Frank Lloyd Wright
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." -Lao Tzu
"The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share." -Lady Bird Johnson
"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty." -John Ruskin
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more," -'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', Lord Byron
"Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling." -Greta Thunberg
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." -Robert Swan
"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth." -David Sarnoff
"The poetry of the earth is never dead." -John Keats
"Where flowers bloom, so does hope." -Lady Bird Johnson
"The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it." -Barry Commoner
"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man." -Stewart Udall
