Looking for inspirational quotes on Earth Day? We have rounded up the best collection of Earth day quotes, sayings, captions, status, slogan, poster, (with images and pictures) to inspire you to take care of the environment and make our earth a healthier and happier place to live in.
Also See: Awareness Quotes
When Is Earth Day Celebrated?
Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 every year. Billions of people celebrate this day to protect our planet from deforestation, global warming, pollution, etc.
People take part on this day by planting trees, collecting thrash from the streets and making signboards with positive slogans on reusing and recycling things.
Also See: Global Warming Quotes
Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970, when a Senator from Wisconsin, a state in the United States, organized a demonstration to raise awareness about environmental problems. By 1990, Earth Day was celebrated across 140 countries in the world.
Also See: Mother Nature Quotes
The theme of Earth Day, April 22, 2022 is Invest In Our Planet – because a green future is a flourishing future. We all should be aware and conscious of the need to protect Earth’s natural resources for future generations.
These meaningful quotes are divided in these sections:-
- Famous Earth Day Quotes
- Happy Earth Day Quotes And Wishes
- Best Earth Day Captions
If you like these famous quotes about Earth Day, then also check our collection on landscape quotes and recycling quotes to save the environment, our mother Earth and make a good place for all to live in.
Famous Earth Day Quotes
- “The Earth is what we all have in common.” — Wendell Berry
-
“Time spent among trees is never time wasted.” — Anonymous
-
“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.” — Thomas Fuller
-
“The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for.” — Ernest Hemingway
-
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir
-
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.” — John Ruskin
-
“Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this Earth.” — Unknown
-
“The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.” — Barry Commoner
-
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein
-
“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on.” — Henry David Thoreau
-
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” —George Washington Carver
-
“I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.” — Mother Teresa
-
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.” — Leo Tolstoy
-
“The only disease of the Earth is humans. Unfortunately, it is the only cure as well. Happy Earth Day!” — Unknown
-
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” — Helen Keller
-
“We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.” — Barbara Ward
-
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” — Jimmy Carter
-
“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
-
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option … they will become a necessity.” —Fujio Cho, Honorary Chairman of Toyota Motors
-
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
-
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the Earth.” —Henry David Thoreau
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, — To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress its music.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
-
“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
-
“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
-
“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.” — John Paul II
-
“Earth care, as it turns out, is really about self-care and other-care. What we design today impacts how we live tomorrow. For better or for worse, it impacts far into upcoming generations.” — L.L. Barkat
-
“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 a difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall
-
“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
-
“Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.” – Gaylord Nelson
-
“As I walk with Beauty As I walk, as I walk, The universe is walking with me, In beauty it walks before me, In beauty it walks behind me, In beauty it walks below me, In beauty it walks above me, Beauty is on every side. —Traditional Navajo Prayer
-
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” — David Attenborough
-
“Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
“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
-
“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
-
“We need the tonic of wildness—to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” — Henry David Thoreau
Happy Earth Day Quotes And Slogans
- “Love the Earth as you would love yourself.” – John Denver
-
“When we honor the Earth we honor ourselves.” – L.M. Wilde
-
“Make every day Earth day. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Happy Earth Day!”
-
“Go green and make our Earth a beautiful place to live. Happy Earth Day!”
-
“Mother earth is a living organism too. Love, honor and respect her. Earth Day, April 22!”
-
“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child. Happy Earth Day!”
-
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” – C.S. Lewis
-
“Dear old world…You are very lovely, And I am glad to be alive in you.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery
-
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir
-
“It’s Earth day. I wonder if we can plant more trees than people for a change?” – Stanley Victor Paskavich
-
“Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.” – Jackie Speier
-
“To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.” – Bill Nye
-
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” – Psalm 19:1 (Bible Verses)
-
“Happy International Earth Day. Lets come together to make our planet greener and healthier.” – Unknown
-
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can.” – Sydney Smith
-
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
-
“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
-
“Do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.” – Dave Foreman
-
“Stop fighting about who created the world and start fighting against the people who are trying to destroy it!” – Unknown
-
“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” – Michel de Montaigne
-
“Happy Earth Day to one of the most beautiful creations on this Earth. Let’s do our bit and save it for tomorrow.”
-
“Recycle. Donate things you don’t want any more. Try Reusable bags. Turn food scarps into compost. Turn things off.” – 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
-
“Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.” – Scott Peters
-
“Earth day is a day designed to inspire environmental awareness and appreciation. The beauty of the Earth matches the beauty in.” – Unknown
-
“We have one planet to call our own. Let’s make each day Earth day. After all, we have to honor and respect the Earth. It’s our only home.” – Unknown
-
“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
-
“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
-
“The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the environment we cannot sustain ourselves.” – Wangari Maathai
-
“It is our responsibility to take care of planet Earth. It is our responsibility to handover Mother Earth in a healthier shape to our coming generation. Let us work to make it a better place. Happy Earth Day!” – Unknown
Short Earth Day Captions For Instagram
- “Save the planet.”
-
“Going green is the new pink.”
-
“Don’t be trashy, save the planet!”
-
“Vegan: it turns a planet good.” — Unknown
-
“Earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
“Be the change you wish to see in this world.” — Gandhi
-
“The good man is the friend of all living things.” — Gandhi
-
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson
-
“One planet, one future. Let’s protect our Earth.” – Unknown
-
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
-
“Save the Earth, it’s our only source of chocolate!” – Anonymous
-
“The earth has music for those who listen.” – William Shakespeare
-
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
“On Earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.” – Jules Renard
-
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau
-
“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” – Benjamin Franklin
-
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
“Teach us to walk the soft Earth as relatives to all that live.” – Sioux Prayer
-
“The Earth does not belong to man. Man belongs to the Earth.” – Unknown
-
“Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.” – Karle Wilson Baker
-
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.” – John Ruskin
-
“This is what you shall do; love the Earth and sun and the animals..” – Walt Whitman
-
“The ocean is everything I want to be. Beautiful, mysterious, wild and free.” – Unknown
-
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” – Gandhi
-
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” – Native American Proverb
Feel free to share with friends and family on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Tumblr, Pinterest, and more to spread some wise words of wisdom and share your feelings in words.
If we have missed some quotes, share it with us in the comment section below and we shall be happy to add it to the list.