The Earth - neither the biggest nor the most extravagant (having in mind that on Saturn, it literally rains diamonds), yet somehow absolutely the most spectacular planet in the Solar System. Not saying all of them, because there still might be a second Earth somewhere in the vast endlessness of space! Anyway, the Earth isn’t only spectacular for having us as its inhabitants, but rather despite it. Its beauty is unmatched neither by Saturn’s diamonds nor by the impressive gaseous qualities of Jupiter. To count all the aspects in which the Earth is the front-runner in mesmerizing beauty would be an absurdly menial task, so, instead, we are offering you our collection of Earth Day quotes to commemorate the day.
These beautiful quotes, besides praising the gifts the Earth gives us, also remind us to step back and look at it as one living, breathing organism, of which we are a huge part. In fact, it is us that shall decide the future of our blue planet, home of uncountable living organisms, including humans. So, you should definitely expect that some of these smart quotes will be talking about that because preserving such beauty is, indeed, the greatest task. But, without sounding too grim, these uplifting quotes are also likely to make your day this much better and the commemoration of Earth Day that much more important.
So, scroll on down below to check out our selection of the most beautiful Earth Day quotes. Their charm isn't exactly matched to the charm of their material, but they are nevertheless worth reading and memorizing. Don’t forget to vote for the best quotes and share this article with your friends!
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“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.“ — Robert Swan
“To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.” — Bill Nye
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” — David Attenborough
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.” — Leo Tolstoy
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.” ― Chuck Palahniuk
Yes, we keep trying to change it so that it fits in with everybody..... Shock news... not everyone is capable of walking up a mountain or want to go to the countryside and yet the noisy few demand that this is the case.,
“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” — Henry David Thoreau
“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.” — Native American Chief Seattle
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” — Jimmy Carter
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” ― Ansel Adams
“The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats, and biodiversity.” — Gaylord Nelson
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.” — John Ruskin
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” – Walt Whitman
“I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is.“ – Greta Thunberg
It won't have us after dropping it as a planet. It's still upset.
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She’s got a great point. Now she has to get through to Chinese, Indian and about 6 other governments that will dismiss her faster than she can blink.
“Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.“ — Carl Sagan
“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
“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Because no one wants to actually complain or do anything about the worst polluters as they provide all the products.
“The good man is the friend of all living things.” — Gandhi
“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?“ — Jane Goodall
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” ― Aldo Leopold
“I’m often asked whether I believe in global warming. I now just reply with the question: Do you believe in gravity?“ ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse.“ – Desmond Tutu
“You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.” — Wangari Maathai
“In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.” – Bertrand Piccard
"Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place." — Scott Peters
“Break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” — John Muir
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." — Lao Tzu
“Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.” — David Sarnoff
“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!“ — Yuri Gagarin
“To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.” – Terry Tempest
“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
Or Greta, how about you go and spout your bilge to China ?..... no ? didn't think so
“We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.” — Barack Obama
“The Earth should not be a worse place after my life than it was when I was born here.” ― Rob Stewart
“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” ― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
“I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax.“ — Richard Feynman
“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 destruction.” — Rachel Carson
“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
“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
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” ― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
“We don’t have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It’s life or death.” ― Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.“ – Henry Thoreau
“It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzzword. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.“ – Cameron Sinclair
“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers” ― Peter Singer
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” ― Rachel Carson
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.“ ― Chris Maser
“Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us.” — Amit Ray
“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
“Dear old world… You are very lovely, And I am glad to be alive in you.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery
“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
“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 a difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall
“…do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.” — Dave Foreman
“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
“Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It’s Earth day. I wonder if we can plant more trees than people for a change?” – Stanley Victor Paskavich
“The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.“ — Margaret Atwood
“The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge, for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.“ ― Marya Mannes
“How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?” ― William Morris
“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” ― E.O. Wilson
“Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.” — Frances Moore Lappé
“The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.” ― Gaylord Nelson
“If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day – at every meal.” ― Ingrid Newkirk
“Climate change isn’t something in the future. That narrative is fundamentally flawed because there are millions impacted and so many displaced already. That is the new inconvenient truth that no one wants to hear.“ ― Aneesa Khan
“I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were fiction.“ – Leonardo DiCaprio
“We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another.“ — Gordon Brown
“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.” ― Michel de Montaigne
“Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution.“ – Evo Morales
"What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans." – Evo Morales
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” — Kahlil Gibran
”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.” — Lord Byron
“We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.” — Barbara Ward
“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
“I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.” — Mother Teresa
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw
“...the climate and the biosphere don’t care about our politics and our empty words for a single second.” — Greta Thunberg
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” ― Cree Indian Proverb
“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.“ – William Ruckelshaus
“The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.“ – Paul Hawken
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.“ — Frank Lloyd Wright
Think before you buy anything in plastic, in fact think before you buy anything.
