80 Earth Day Quotes about Nature and Climate Change
Mother Earth is clearly urging a call to action. Nature is suffering. Climate changes, poor air quality, land contamination, acidic oceans and ecological misbalances are indicators which we are ignoring. We are not making enough efforts for taking care of the Earth. Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22nd to raise awareness of threats to our planet’s health and demonstrate support for environmental protection. Earth Day is most widely celebrated secular holiday in the world after New Year’s Day and International Worker’s Day. Let us celebrate Earth Day 2024 on Monday, April 22 with these Earth Day Quotes. These inspirational quotes are worth remembering on this special day set aside to honor the Mother Nature.
Earth Day Quotes
- “Understand the worth of earth, treat it with care and give love it deserves.” ~ Invajy
- “The Earth does not belongs to us, we belong to earth.” ~ Chief Seattle
- “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” ~ American Proverb
- “There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” ~ Marshall McLuhan
- “It’s Earth day. I wonder if we can plant more trees than people for a change?” ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
- “Mother earth has given so much to us. Should not we take care of her?” ~ Invajy
- “You can celebrate everyday as Earth Day with little mindful efforts.” ~ Invajy
- “He that plants trees loves others beside himself.” ~ Thomas Fuller
- “The earth is what we all have in common.” ~ Wendell Berry
- “Save the earth, and the earth will save you.” ~ Anonymous
Earth Day 2024 Quotes
- “The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.” ~ Lady Bird Johnson
- “Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” ~ John Muir
- “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “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
- “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- “We need the tonic of wildness – to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” ~ John Muir
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The good man is the friend of all living things.” ~ Gandhi
- “The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
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Happy Earth Day Quotes
- “The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.” ~ Barry Commoner
- “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plan to protect man.” ~ Stewart Udall
- “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
- “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
- “Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “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
- “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
- “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
Happy Earth Day Quotes 2024
- “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
- “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.” ~ John Paul II
- “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods. There is a rapture on the lonely shore. And, 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
- “Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.” ~ Thomas Edison
- “Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.” ~ John Ruskin
- “Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.” ~ Scott Peters
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead
- “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
- “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
Mother Earth Quotes
- “Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.” ~ Jackie Speier
- “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Time spent among trees is never time wasted.” ~ Anonymous
- “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” ~ Jimmy Carter
- “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” ~ George Washington Carver
- “What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” ~ Helen Keller
- “If we can’t create social change & consciousness; then there’s no hope for humanity” ~ Amanda Ray
- “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Earth Day Quotes
- “You don’t live on earth, you are passing through.” ~ Rumi
- “Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.” ~ Lao Tzu
- “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the Earth.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- “Land really is the best art.” ~ Andy Warhol
- “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and my soul.” ~ John Muir
- “The sun does not forget a village just because it is small.” ~ African Proverb
- “There is no medicine you can take that has such a direct influence on your health as a walk in a beautiful forest.” ~ Dr. Qing Li
- “Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “The most environmentally friendly product is the one you didn’t buy.” ~ Joshua Becker
Climate Change Quotes
- “If you really think that the environment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money.” ~ Guy McPherson
- “We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do something about it.” ~ Barack Obama
- “The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us.” ~ George Monbiot
- “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
- “All we have to do is to wake up and change.” ~ Greta Thunberg
- “Pollution and climate change by excessive burning of fossil fuels are real threats, not the people who warn that we must take these threats seriously.” ~ David Suzuki
- “The time for seeking global solutions is running out. We can find suitable solutions only if we act together and in agreement.” ~ Pope Francis
- “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ~ Dr. Jane Goodall
- “It’s not climate change that needs to be tackled. It is the political power of the fossil fuel industry.” ~ Richard Denniss
- “Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” ~ Bill Gates
Earth Day Wishes
- “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
- “We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” ~ Robert Swan
- “As cheesy as it sounds, truly every day is Earth Day.” ~ Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
- “Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “We are on Earth to take care of life. We are on Earth to take care of each other.” ~ Xiye Bastida
- “When we know how to protect all beings, we are protecting ourselves.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
- “I need to be outside. I need to be in the world and to remember that I am of it.” ~ John Green
- “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
- “Do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.” ~ Dave Foreman
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