Quotes on Earth Day

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.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.

Celebrate Earth Day every day.

There is no such place as away.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in 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.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.

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.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.