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.

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.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

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

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

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

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.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

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.

The earth is what we all have in common.