25+ Best Earth Day Quotes and Sayings (Images)

Spread the love

It’s where we live, it’s Earth, or rather it’s the Earth Day. We have some choices of inspirational quotes and sayings for this event / occasion.

Earth Day Inspirational Quotes & Saying Images

Earth Day , You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~ Hal BorlandSundial of the Seasons, 1964


Earth Day , We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~ Native American Proverb


Earth Day , Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~ Dennis GaborInventing the Future, 1963


Earth Day , There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't

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. ~ Robert Orben


Earth Day , There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. ~ Brooke Medicine Eagle


Earth Day , There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan1964


Earth Day , Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~ Henry David Thoreau


Earth Day , Take nothing but pictures

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time. ~ Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society


Earth Day , Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~ Bill Vaughnquoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987


Earth Day , Only when the last tree has died and the

Earth Day , Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned

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. ~ Cree Indian Proverb


Earth Day , Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain

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. ~ George Carlin


Earth Day , Never does nature say one thing and
Quote About Earth Day

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~ JuvenalSatires


Earth Day , Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values…. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ~ Charles A. LindberghReader’s Digest, July 1972


Earth Day , It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times

It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens is going on here? ~ Denton Morrisonon chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989


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

I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior. ~ Darryl Cherneyquoted in Smithsonian, April 1990


Earth Day , I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man

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 WhiteEssays of E.B. White, 1977


Earth Day , I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~ John Muir1913, in Linnie Marsh Wolfe, ed., John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir


Earth Day , I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. ~ A Chieftan from Nigeria


Earth Day , Humankind has not woven the web of life

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. ~ Chief Seattle1855


Earth Day , Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~ David EhrenfeldThe Arrogance of Humanism, 1978


Earth Day , For 200 years we've been conquering Nature

For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death. ~ Tom McMillanquoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990


Earth Day , Every day is

Every day is Earth Day. ~ Author Unknown


Earth Day , Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that

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. ~ Stephanie Millsed., In Praise of Nature, 1990


Earth Day , Climb the mountains and get their good tidings

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. ~ John Muir


Earth Day , And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ William Shakespeare


Earth Day , After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live

Earth Day , After a visit to the beach

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~ Pam Shaw


Earth Day , A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for

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. ~ David Brin


Spread the love

Leave a Comment