Are you looking for inspiration to celebrate Earth Day? Check out the following quotes. Each are perfect for Earth Day, April 22, 2021.
- “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”-John Muir
- “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.”-Gandhi
- “I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.”– Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- “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
- “Time spent among trees is never time wasted.” —Katrina Mayer
- “Most of us are familiar with recycle and reusing, but how often do we think of the third R – REDUCE? ‘Reduce’ is probably the most important of the three Rs because, if we reduced, it would limit the need to recycle and reuse.” -Catherine Pulsifer
- “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
- 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
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” —Albert Einstein
- “Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.” —Scott Peters
- “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” -Henry David Thoreau
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Earth laughs in flowers.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The good man is the friend of all living things.” —Gandhi
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.” —Bill Nye
- “Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.”-David Sarnoff
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