Today is Earth Day, a time for us to pause and appreciate our beautiful planet. It’s a day to reflect on our responsibility to protect and preserve this world for ourselves and future generations.
In this post, I want to share 101 powerful, motivational, and inspirational Earth Day quotes to inspire gratitude, joy, and a renewed commitment to environmental conservation.
Inspirational Earth Day Quotes
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The good man is the friend of all living things.”
– Gandhi
“The whole world is, to me, very much ‘alive’- all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can’t look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life – the things going on within them.”
– Ansel Adams
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
– Albert Einstein
“If every day were Earth Day we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The Earth is what we all have in common.”
– Wendell Berry
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.”
– Lao Tzu
“I firmly believe nature brings solace in all troubles.”
– Anne Frank
“We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.”
– Barbara Ward
“No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.”
– Maya Angelou
“You don’t live on earth, you are passing through.”
– Rumi
“The most environmentally friendly product is the one you didn’t buy.”
– Joshua Becker
“We are on Earth to take care of life. We are on Earth to take care of each other.”
– Xiye Bastida
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
– Robert Swan
“I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.”
– Mother Teresa
“We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.”
– Barack Obama
“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
– Vandana Shiva
“Together we can preserve the forest, securing this immense treasure for the future of all these children.”
– Chico Mendes
“Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us.”
– Amit Ray
“Look after the land and the land will look after you, destroy the land and it will destroy you.”
– Aboriginal Proverb
“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
– John Muir
“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.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Happy Earth Day Quotes for Gratitude
“Dear old world, You are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.”
– Katrina Mayer
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.”
– Albert Einstein
“The Earth has music for those who listen.”
– Reginald Vincent Holmes
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
– John Muir
“The Earth is the Mother, I am her Son.”
– Atharva Veda
“The real you is loving, joyful and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.”
– Don Miguel Ruiz
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.”
– Eckhart Tolle
“Fill your hearts with love and gratitude. Life gives us what we need and not necessarily what we want.”
– Mata Amritanandamayi
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods. There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society, where none intrudes by the deep sea, and music in its roar. I love not man the less, but nature more.”
– Lord Byron
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.”
– John Ruskin
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.”
– Amit Ray
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
– John Milton
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
– Marie Curie
“Every day above earth is a good day.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“It is a blessing to be the color of the earth; do you know how often flowers confuse me for home?”
– Rupi Kaur
“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.”
– Pope John Paul II
Earth Day Quotes for Kids
“You can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change – and it has to start today.”
– Greta Thunberg
“What about naming trees?…if we have a tree in our name, we want that tree to live.”
– Jane Goodall
“We don’t own the planet Earth; we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.”
– Steve Irwin
“It looks big, Earth. But there are lots of us on here (7,523,458,567 and counting) so be kind.”
– Oliver Jeffers
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
– Jane Goodall
“To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.”
– Bill Nye
“Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.”
– Jackie Speier
“It’s Earth day. I wonder if we can plant more trees than people for a change?”
– Stanley Victor Paskavich
“Don’t waste the Earth – it is our jewel!”
– Buzz Aldrin
“All we have to do is to wake up and change.”
– Greta Thunberg
“An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.”
– David Attenborough
“A vibrant, fair, and regenerative future is possible — not when thousands of people do climate justice activism perfectly but when millions of people do the best they can.”
– Xiye Bastida
“Think of the power of the universe—turning the Earth, growing the trees. That’s the same power within you—if you’ll only have the courage and the will to use it.”
– Charlie Chaplin
“If you can’t be in awe of Nature, there’s something wrong with you.”
– Alex Trebek
“Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
– Carl Sagan
Motivational Earth Day Quotes for a Better World
“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”
– Lady Bird Johnson
“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”
– John James Audubon
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead
“I have to work with young people today so that we try and raise new generations to look after this poor old planet better than we have, before it’s too late.”
– Jane Goodall
“We can’t save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people, especially those most often unheard.”
– Leah Thomas
“Today’s youth does not have the luxury to have a childhood anymore. Older generations forced us into giving that away by destroying our planet. But if we strike now, if we work to undo the damage done by those before us, then maybe we can restore that luxury for the generations that follow us.”
– Ciara Lonergan
“We only get one planet. Humankind must become accountable on a massive scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home. Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.”
– Leonardo DiCaprio
“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 Seattle
“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”
– Thomas Fuller
“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”
– Jacques Cousteau
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
– Rachel Carson
“The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“We can do this. This is the biggest emergent social movement in all of history. We can do this. And if anybody thinks that we don’t have the political will, remember, political will is itself a renewable resource.”
– Al Gore
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”
– Cree Proverb
“The time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now. You can make history or be vilified by it.”
– Leonardo DiCaprio
“There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh water, clean air, tillable soil, forests, wilderness, habitat for wildlife, minerals and recreational assets.”
– Gaylord Nelson
“Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse.”
– Desmond Tutu
“The truth is we don’t need ten really passionate, committed environmentalists. We need one hundred or one million people who can do a little bit in that field and change things in their domain.”
– Malaika Vaz
“We should care about the protection of people as much as we care about the protection of our planet – to me, these fights are the same.”
– Leah Thomas
Short Earth Day Quotes
“The Earth is a tiny and fragile world. It needs to be cherished.”
– Carl Sagan
“We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.”
– John Heyl Vincent
“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
– Margaret Fuller
“The sun does not forget a village just because it is small.”
– African Proverb
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
– E. E. Cummings
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
– Albert Einstein
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
– Blaise Pascal
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
– Loren Eiseley
“Be kind to this Earth. It brought you into this world and you will be a part of it forever in some way.”
– John Miller
“Times are tough, but never forget the awe and majesty of life on this strange blue planet.”
– Rebecca Helm
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Land really is the best art.”
– Andy Warhol
“How Strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
– Emily Dickinson
“Earth breathes in us.”
– Matthew Edward Hall
“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”
– Yuri Gagarin
“If the environment is happy, people will laugh and your grief will go away.”
– Srinivas Mishra
“The earth is always changing…readjusting to our existence. Each era is full of unique challenges.”
– Val Uchendu
“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
“Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.”
– Gaylord Nelson
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
– Khalil Gibran
“The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on water, but to walk on the earth.”
– Chinese Proverb
Want more inspiration and motivation for this time of the year? Then check out the positive spring quotes in this post, these short spring quotes and the beautiful April quotes here. Plus, this one with plenty of May quotes.
