World Earth Day Quotes

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

Human beings cannot live without stories.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today. I believe in what I do beyond a shadow of a doubt. I gave my word to this tree and to all the people that my feet would not touch the ground until I had done everything in my power to make the world aware of this problem and to stop the destruction.

Celebrate Earth Day every day.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.

I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet - at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much love, life, beauty and peace. Enjoy your stay with the fellow beings.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

The earth is what we all have in common.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in 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.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

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.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

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.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

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.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.