61 Earth Day Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Environmental Passion

"Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now."

- Jackie Speier

"We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it."

- Barack Obama

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

- Robert Swan

"The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard."

- Gaylord Nelson

"If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms."

- Winona LaDuke

"If every day were Earth Day we wouldn't be in the mess we're in."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."

- Aldo Leopold

"For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it."

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

"The climate emergency is a race we are losing, but it is a race we can win."

- António Guterres

"You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth."

- Julia Butterfly Hill

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

- Marya Mannes

"Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

- Carl Sagan

"All we have to do is to wake up and change."

- Greta Thunberg

"A vibrant, fair, and regenerative future is possible —not when thousands of people do climate justice activism perfectly but when millions of people do the best they can."

- Xiye Bastida

"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

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"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

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."

- Rachel Carson

"Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day."

- Gifford Pinchot

"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking."

- Wangari Maathai

"To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from."

- Terry Tempest Williams

"Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something."

- Sylvia Earle

"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

"Together we can preserve the forest, securing this immense treasure for the future of all these children."

- Chico Mendes

"Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea."

- Dr. Sylvia Earle

"At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity."

- Chico Mendes

"We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations."

- David Brower

"We are the environment and how we treat each other is really how we treat the environment."

- John Francis

"In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life."

- Vandana Shiva

"Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience."

- Lois Gibbs

"We can't save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people, especially those most often unheard."

- Leah Thomas

"Global warming is, quite simply, the biggest thing that humans have ever managed to do."

- Bill McKibben

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

- John Muir

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The time to protect a species is while it is still common."

- Rosalie Edge

"Earth breathes in us."

- Matthew Edward Hall

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

- Kahlil Gibran

"You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you."

- Vandana Shiva

"Do unto those downstream as you have those upstream do unto you."

- Wendell Berry

"Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness."

- Eckhart Tolle

"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

"I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use."

- Mother Teresa

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."

- John Muir

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

- Henry David Thoreau

"If you can't be in awe of Nature, there's something wrong with you."

- Alex Trebek

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

- Michel de Montaigne

"All our wisdom is stored in the trees."

- Santosh Kalwar

"There is no medicine you can take that has such a direct influence on your health as a walk in a beautiful forest."

- Dr. Qing Li

"It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give."

- E.O. Wilson

"Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint."

- Robert Frost

"It is a blessing to be the color of the earth; do you know how often flowers confuse me for home?"

- Rupi Kaur

"Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes."

- P.J. O'Rourke

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Despite the forecast, live like it's spring."

- Lilly Pulitzer

"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's Party!"

- Robin Williams