Our collection of Earth Day quotes and slogans help recognize a very important day around the world.
Read up on the background of this day below before diving into the Earth Day quotes, sayings, and slogans. Happy Earth Day!
Best Earth Day Quotes
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful — an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
Ansel Adams
There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature.
Aristotle
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson
Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.
Charles Cook
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love the Earth
Love the earth as you would love yourself.
John Denver
Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
Thomas Edison
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
Earth Day Fun Fact: Some folks spell Earth Day as Earthday in one word. Other common misspellings include eath day, earth dat, and earth da.
Happy Earth Day Quotations
He that plants trees love others besides himself.
Thomas Fuller
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Gandhi
Be the change you wish to see in this world.
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God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
Genesis 1:31
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
Lady Bird Johnson
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller
The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote ‘Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.’ He named Earth Day ‘Earth Day.’ It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.
Sarah Koenig
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Quotes About Earth Day
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
The Lorax
There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
John Muir
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.
John Muir
Save the Planet
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
John Muir
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb
I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Love is all you need
The premise of the Taker story is ‘the world belongs to man’. … The premise of the Leaver story is ‘man belongs to the world’.
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
We’re not destroying the world because we’re clumsy. We’re destroying the world
because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Earth Day Sayings
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 wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
And into the forest,
I go, to lose my mind
and find my soul.
Unknown
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman
Good Earth Day Slogans
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Pogo, First Earth Day poster
Save the Earth, it’s our only source of chocolate!
Earth loves you. Love it back.
Show your love for Mother Earth.
Make every day Earth Day.
Earth day: join the fight, do what’s right.
Friendly Reminder: There is no Planet B.
Don’t blow it. Good planets are hard to find.
Love the Earth, it’s the only choice.
Pollution is not a solution.
Plant a tree, plant a life.
SAVE EARTH!
Nurture Nature.
Do your share to care.
Modern technology owes ecology an apology.
A clean earth is a happy earth.
Be earth-friendly.
It’s our world, take care of it.
Love your Mother (Earth).
Background on Earth Day
What is Earth Day?
Earth Day is an annual event celebrated by many countries around the world to recognize the importance of protecting our planet’s environment. Events are coordinated globally by Earth Day Network. “This year’s campaign is about environmental and climate literacy” per the website. Earth Day also marks the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
Earth Day Fun Facts
- The Earth Day concept was proposed by Wisconsin Senator Gaylor Nelson.
- Earth Day helped create public support for the Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air Act.
- More than one billion people will celebrate Earth Day this year.
- Per LiveScience.com, Kate Williams, CEO of 1% for the Planet, one of the world’s largest environmental networks, told Live Science that anyone can make a difference on Earth Day by simply incorporating little changes into their daily routines. “Read your labels, and require transparency from your favorite brands. Make a pledge to keep the water clean and accessible for years to come,” Williams said. “Commit to making an at-risk species your mascot, and become an advocate for that particular species. There are so many different ways to make an impact — you just have to choose one!”
When is Earth Day?
Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 every year. So, for 2021, Earth Day 2020 is celebrated on Thursday, April 22, 2021.
When was the first Earth Day?
The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970.
By Sarah Olson
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