Earth Day Quotes

"The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth."

"The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."

"We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."

"The Earth is what we all have in common."

"The natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest."

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."

"The Earth has enough resources for our need but not for our greed."

"We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it."

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land."

"The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for."

"Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, and the last stream poisoned will we realize we cannot eat money."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

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

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught."

"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."

"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."

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us."

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

"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."

"In a world of more than seven billion people, each of us is a drop in the bucket. But with enough drops, we can fill any bucket."

"In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground."

"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."

"No ocean, no life. No blue, no green."

"You are brilliant, and the Earth is hiring."

"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."

"We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to."

"The environment is everything that is not me."

"Trees are poems that the Earth writes upon the sky."

"Forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

"Going to the woods is going home."

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."

"The poetry of the Earth is never dead."

"Climate change is not a distant issue for future generations to worry about; it is happening now and affecting us all."

"Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, what were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?"