Earth Day Quotes

Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s natural environment. Earth Day was founded by the United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970.

1. Every day is Earth Day.
2. I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.
3. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
4. There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
5. Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
6. 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.
7. I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior.
8. Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
9. For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death.
10. I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
11. 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.
12. A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it’s taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn’t reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says – go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining.
13. Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
14. Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
15. Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
16. Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values…. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
17. After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.
18. 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 off like autumn leaves.
19. 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.
20. Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.