World Earth Day 2021: Best 20 Quotes to Celebrate Earth Day

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’

 I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The earth is what we all have in common.

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

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.

The environment, after all, is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest. It is one thing that all of us share. It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.

One individual cannot possibly make a difference alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference—all the difference in the world.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats, and biodiversity.

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.

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.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.