Today marks Earth Day, a time to pause and appreciate the beauty of our planet and reflect on our responsibility to protect it for current and future generations. In this post, I share 101 powerful and inspirational Earth Day quotes to inspire gratitude and motivate action to safeguard our home.
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
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein
"The Earth is what we all have in common." - Wendell Berry
"Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu
"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
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." - Robert Swan
"The Earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." - Frank Lloyd Wright
Happy Earth Day Quotes for Gratitude
"Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time." - Katrina Mayer
"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift." - Albert Einstein
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir
"The Earth has music for those who listen." - Reginald Vincent Holmes
"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only great curiosity but great fulfillment." - David Attenborough
"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
"Every day above earth is a good day." - Ernest Hemingway
"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 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
"We don't own the planet Earth; we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife." - Steve Irwin
"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
"All we have to do is to wake up and change." - Greta Thunberg
"To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash." - Bill Nye
"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
"Nature provides exceptions to every rule." - Margaret Fuller
"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful." - E. E. Cummings
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." - Loren Eiseley
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." - Henry David Thoreau
"The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on water, but to walk on the earth." - Chinese Proverb
"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
"Despite the forecast, live like it's spring." - Lilly Pulitzer
"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky." - Khalil Gibran
"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
