88 Inspiring Earth Day Quotes For Honoring Our Mother Nature

In this post, we’ll read Earth day quotes which is an annual event celebrated on April 22nd each year to raise awareness about issues related to sustainability and the health of our planet Earth.

Earth Day was first celebrated in the United States in 1970 and has since grown into a global movement with millions of people around the world participating in activities such as tree planting, beach cleanups, recycling drives, environmental education programs, and advocacy campaigns.

Each year, Earth Day is organized around a specific theme or focus area and past themes have included climate change, biodiversity, renewable energy, plastic pollution, and environmental justice.

Let’s read some of the best Earth Day quotes to celebrate our mother nature!

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Earth Day Quotes

1. “If every day were Earth Day we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson

2. “The earth is always changing…readjusting to our existence. Each era is full of unique challenges”― Val Uchendu

3. “Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.” — Scott Peters

4. “Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.” — Jackie Speier

5. “As cheesy as it sounds, truly every day is Earth Day.” — Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

6. “It’s Earth day. I wonder if we can plant more trees than people for a change?” — Stanley Victor Paskavich

7. “Earth day/week/month always is so busy but it’s always still such a time of celebration and reverence for the work we do.” — Isaias Hernandez

Earth Day Quotes on Saving Earth

1. “Don’t be trashy. Save the planet.” – Unknown

2. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”― Chad Sugg

3. “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” — Robert Swan

4. “We are on Earth to take care of life. We are on Earth to take care of each other.” — Xiye Bastida

5. “We can’t save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people, especially those most often unheard.” — Leah Thomas

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

7. “When enough people come together, then change will come and we can achieve almost anything. So instead of looking for hope — start creating it.” — Greta Thunberg

8. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” — Mother Teresa

9. “Together we can preserve the forest, securing this immense treasure for the future of all these children.”— Chico Mendes

Funny Earth Day Quotes

1. “I’m so down to Earth, I’m practically made of soil.” — Unknown

2. “I’d like to connect with nature, but there’s no USB port.” — Unknown

3. “Keep the Earth clean… it’s not Uranus.”

4. “I think it would be great to be born on Earth and to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” — Elon Musk

5. “I don’t know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice.” — Roland A. Browne

6. “It is a blessing to be the color of the earth; do you know how often flowers confuse me for home?” — Rupi Kaur

7. “What about naming trees?…if we have a tree in our name, we want that tree to live.” — Jane Goodall

8. “Earth. You don’t have to be crazy to live here, but it helps.” — Ryan Howard, The Office

9. “Living on Earth may be tough, but it includes a free ride around the sun every year.” — Unknown

Earth Day Quotes on Saving Environment

1. “The most environmentally friendly product is the one you didn’t buy.” — Joshua Becker

2. “The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats, and biodiversity… that’s all there is.” — Gaylord Nelson

3. “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.”— Mother Teresa

4. “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

5. “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

6. “We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.” — Barack Obama

Earth Day Quotes for Students

1. “Look after the land and the land will look after you, destroy the land and it will destroy you.” — Aboriginal Proverb

2. “It looks big, Earth. But there are lots of us on here (7,523,458,567 and counting) so be kind.” — Oliver Jeffers

3. “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” — Doug Larson

4. “You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”— Vandana Shiva

5. “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

6. “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

7. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies, and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” — Osho

Earth Day Quotes on Nature

1. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein

2. “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir

3. “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, Silent Spring

4. “Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” ― Albert Einstein

5. “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” — Gary Snyder

6. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” — Vincent van Gogh

7. “To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.” — Mary Davis

8. “If you can’t be in awe of Nature, there’s something wrong with you.” — Alex Trebek

9. “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.

10. “Time spent in nature is time well spent.”

11. “And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”― Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer’s Life

Short Earth Day Quotes

1. “The Earth is what we all have in common.” — Wendell Berry

2. “Land really is the best art.” —Andy Warhol

3. “You can never see a plant grow, but they do.” — Carol Plum-Ucci

4. “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”― John Keats

5. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” — John Muir

6. “There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.” — Mindy Kaling

7. “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” — Steve Martin

8. “Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration.” — Lou Erickson

9. “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” — Arthur C. Clarke

10. “You don’t live on earth, you are passing through.” —Rumi

11. “The good man is the friend of all living things.” — Mahatma Gandhi

12. “Nature gives a free lunch, yet just in the event that we control our cravings.” — William Ruckelshaus

13. “All we have to do is to wake up and change.” —Greta Thunberg

14. “I need to be outside. I need to be in the world and to remember that I am of it.” — John Green

15. “He that plants trees loves others beside himself.” — Thomas Fuller

Inspirational Earth Day Quotes

1. “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

2. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’”― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

3. “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, Walden

4. “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

5. “Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the Earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

Earth Day Quotes For Instagram

1. “I don’t want to trash talk, but if you don’t recycle, you’re a waste.”

2. “Shout out to the Earth — you keep me grounded.”

3. “The mountains are calling, and I must go.”― John Muir

4. “Let’s make sure the Earth is never too hot to handle!”

5. “I don’t want to be too sappy, but happy Earth Day.”

6. “Small changes = big difference.”

7. “The earth has its music for those who will listen.” — George Santayana

8. “Be-leaf it or not, today is a great day to do your part.”

9. “Plant trees, ditch plastic.”

10. “Earth: You only get one copy.”

11. “Make yourself at home… but also clean up after yourself!”

12. “Respect your mother.”

13. “The earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. “Because Earth needs a glow-up.”

15. “You grow, girl.”

16. “Live, laugh, lava.”

17. “The Earth is a really space-cial place.”

18. “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson

19. “The way the Earth rotates makes my day.”

These Earth Day quotes serve as a reminder of the urgent need to protect and preserve the natural world for future generations and take necessary actions for a sustainable and resilient planet.

Overall, the day provides opportunities for learning, dialogue, and engagement on environmental issues at local, national, and global levels.

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