Earth Day Quotes

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.

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

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

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

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.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

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

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

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

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

There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

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.

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

The earth is what we all have in common.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

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

Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

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

Celebrate Earth Day every day.

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

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.

Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.