Category: conservation

Are you looking for inspiration to celebrate Earth Day? Check out the following quotes. Each are perfect for Earth Day, April 22, 2021.

1. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
2. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”-John Muir
3. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.”-Gandhi
4. “I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.”– Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
5. “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
6. “Time spent among trees is never time wasted.” —Katrina Mayer
7. “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
8. “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
9. 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
10. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” —Albert Einstein
11. “Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.” —Scott Peters
12. “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” -Henry David Thoreau
13. “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
14. “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
15. “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
16. “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
17. “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
18. “Earth laughs in flowers.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “The good man is the friend of all living things.” —Gandhi
20. “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
21. “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
22. “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
23. “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
24. “To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.” —Bill Nye
25. “Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.”-David Sarnoff