51 Earth Day Quotes
Be inspired by these Earth Day quotes. Earth Day is celebrated each year, but Earth Day should be every day and everybody can make a difference in preserving this precious planet of ours! In some areas, each Earth Day sees many trees planted.Lately, there are dedicated groups that are picking up plastic bottles out of our oceans. Imagine the disaster if our earth is polluted to the point that the air is unbreathable or there are reoccurring violent storms that reduce airable land for planting food crops. What is common to all of humankind is that we all inhabit this earth. In effect, there is no replacement so what we do to Earth lasts far into the next generation and so on. It isn't necessarily any government's responsibility as much as it is each person's duty to contribute to the on-going vitality of our earthly home. How can you do your part?
We hope you find these short quotes inspiring and that they provide encouragement to you and to others.
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The passing of the torch to young people is the hallmark of succeeding in earth-wise management; encouragement lasts a lifetime.
Samatha Anne Marie Lynch
Poems About Earth Day -
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
Audrey Hepburn
Garden Poems -
Each Christian is responsible for the stewardship of the earth as granted to humankind by the Almighty God.
Mary S. Scotsburn
Christian Poems -
To establish a friendship with the earth upon which we live is no different than ensuring that each person has access to food.
Theodore W. Higginsworth
Friendship Poems -
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Positive Quotes About Change -
"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the
earth are never alone or weary of life."
Rachel Carson
Poems About Life -
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking
things for granted. "
Aldous Huxley
Inspirational Poems -
Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made.
A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress.
Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!
C Lynch
Motivational Poems - We encourage taking care of our planet's health for our generations' better wealth. Catherine Pulsifer, April Brings Earth Day
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"There is enough for all.
The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful
abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her
soil in justice and in peace."
Bourke Coekran
Abundance Quotes -
Slowly, steadily, under the moon, swings the tide in its old-time way; never too late and never too soon
Unknown, By The Sea
Ocean Poems - "I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours." Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Robert Frost
Fire and Ice Poem - The glad earth smiled to see the day, the first-born day, come blushing in; the young day smiled to shed its ray Charles Fenno Hoffman, Morning Hymn
- ...life is brief, but Mother Earth is kind; from her dear bosom ye shall spring to new blossoming. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Autumn Song
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"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
Henry David Thoreau
Poems about Home -
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Daniel Webster
Wealth Quotes -
Water is the soul of the Earth
Lucy Larcom
Poems About Water -
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
Barbara Ward
Nature Poems - "... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth." Dave Foreman
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb
Proverbs -
If the earth is a mother then rivers are her veins.
Amit Kalantri
Water Quotes -
The main question is if Mother Earth were to react to us with an emoji, like if she were to laugh or cry or be angry, which one would she choose
Jessica Correa
Sad Poems -
"Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. . .
God made life simple. It is man who complicates it."
Charles A. Lindbergh
Simplicity Quotes - The earth is what we all have in common. Wendell Barry
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The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.
John Paul II
Attitude Poems - The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. Robert Swan
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"For 200 years we've been conquering Nature.
Now we're beating it to death."
Tom McMillan
Conservation Quotes -
Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
Cicero
Inspirational Quotes -
"I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior."
Darryl Cherney
Environment Quotes -
As May unfolds its arms, nature unveils a symphony of colors, inviting us to reconnect with the wonders of creation and find solace in the embrace of Mother Earth.
Kate Summers
May Quotes - "I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better." John Denver
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
Pollution Quotes -
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.
Gaylord Nelson
Thank You Poems - "The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future." Marya Mannes
- Celebrate Earth Day every day. John Denver
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"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy,
and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what
remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope."
Wendell Berry
Hope Quotes -
"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."
Elwyn Brooks White
Optimistic Quotes -
Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
Park Sign
Time Quotes -
You continue putting profits above the people on the planet, but we cannot eat money
Evelyn Acham
Poems About Money - "Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another." Juvenal
- Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Mahatma Gandhi
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"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned
and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money."
Indian Proverb
Money Quotes - If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. Joseph Wood Krutch
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So full of good is earth; yet this is best of all to me.
Ellwood Haines Stokes, My Birth-Day
Positive Poems - "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." Marshall McLuhan
- After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. Pam Shaw
- "To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival." Wendell Berry
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There are no boundaries when it comes to protecting the earth that we all live on.
Catherine Pulsifer
Sustainability Quotes -
"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."
Sir Jonathon Porritt
Truth Quotes -
"There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need
are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor
to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new
day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become
who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world
will be a better place."
John Denver
Experience Quotes
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