Earth Day Quotes
+5Earth is dearer than gold.
- English Proverb
+5We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Margaret Mead
+3Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.
- Kenyan Proverb
+3Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values… God made life simple.It is man who complicates it.
- Charles A. Lindbergh
+3Cheat the earth and the earth will cheat you.
- English Proverb
+3It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
- Christopher Morley
+3Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your Mother and all things as your Brothers and Sisters.
- American Proverb
+2Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth.
- Chief Seattle
+1We owe our lives to the sun. How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?
- Lewis Thomas
+1For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death.
- Tom McMillan
+1I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
+1What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau
+1When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
- John Muir
+1It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy, but the quality of human life.
- Ren Dubos
+1Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
- Dennis Gabor
+1The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas,and in their natural and unaided productions.
- Daniel Webster
+1There’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.
- Robert Orben
+1do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living
on this beautiful, blue green, living Earth.
- Dave Foreman
+1Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
- Luther Burbank
+1Awake, thou wintry earth Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! Christ is risen.
- Thomas Blackburn
+1The earth is what we all have in common.
- Wendell Barry
+1There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.
- George Gordon
+1Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
+1Conservation is humanity caring for the future.
- Nancy Newhall
+1When the wells dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1Treat the Earth and all that dwell theron with respect.
- American Proverb
+1Without habitat, there is no wildlife. It’s that simple.
- Habitat Canada
+1In nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life.
- Vandana Shiva
+1Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
- Chief Seattle
+1Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
+1To keep every cog and every wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
- Aldo Leopld
+1The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured, it must not be destroyed.
- Hildegard
+1We cannot solve the problems we have created with the same thinking that created them.
- Albert Einstein
+1Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
- Bill Vaughn
+1One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
- Bible
+1The purpose of conservation: the greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.
- Gifford Pinchot
+1The greatest support for the feminist, antipatriarchal movement can be found in the ecological movement.
- Thomas Berry
+1A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.
- David Brin
+1Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
- John Muir
+1Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.
- John Paul
