Earth Day Quotes:

We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.

- Agnes Baker Pilgrim

topic: Mother, Prayer, Earth Day, Prayer Works

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Nature, Thinking, Earth Day, Inspirational Environmental, Pantheism

I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

- Alice Walker

topic: Wise, Earth Day, Damage, World Earth Day

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.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Men, Earth Day, Survival, Environmentalism

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

- Barry Commoner

topic: Earth Day, Use, Conquer, Inspirational Earth, Love And Nature

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

- Barry Commoner

topic: People, Firefighter, Earth Day, World Earth Day

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

- Barry Commoner

topic: Earth Day, Survival, Environmental, Environmental Crisis

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

- Charles Lindbergh

source: Reader's Digest, July 1972.

topic: Simple, Men, Earth Day, Natural Environment, Destroying The Earth

There is no such place as away.

- Chief Seattle

topic: Earth Day, Earth

Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!

- Ciaran Lynch

topic: Earth Day, Everyday, Environmental

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

- Daniel Webster

topic: Science, Sea, Earth Day, Eco

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

- Darryl Cherney

topic: Warrior, Earth Day, Earth, Environmentalist

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

source: "The Sum of You: Teach Yourself" by Alan Graham, Hachette UK, (p. 13), October 29, 2010.

topic: Nature, Earth Day, Understanding, Inspirational Earth, World Earth Day

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

topic: Beauty, Nature, Earth Day, World Earth Day, Beautiful Earth

... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.

- David Foreman

topic: Beautiful, Blue, Earth Day

When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.

- Denis Hayes

topic: Country, Earth Day, Events

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation

- Denis Hayes

source: "Apocalypse Not: Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry About End Times" by Matt Ridley, www.wired.com. August 17, 2012.

topic: Earth Day, Too Late, Mass

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Book, Earth Day, World

There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.

- Jane Goodall

topic: Animal, People, Earth Day, Stewards, Protect Animals

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

- Jay Inslee

topic: Country, Earth Day, Environmental, World Earth Day, Energy Policy

We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.

- Jeremy Rifkin

topic: Hopeful, Earth Day, Want

Celebrate Earth Day every day.

- John Denver

topic: Earth Day, Earth, Celebrate, World Earth Day

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

- John Hoeven

topic: Earth Day, World, Fruit, World Earth Day

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Years, Earth Day, Earth

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

- Jonathon Porritt

topic: Lying, Heart, Earth Day

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Giving, Earth Day, Environmental, Happy Earth Day

Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on.

- Lewis Black

topic: Earth Day, Drug, One Day

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

topic: Nature, Tree, Earth Day, Natural Gifts, Greenery

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Music, Dance, Earth Day

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

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Nature, Rivers, Earth Day

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

- Paul Johnson

source: Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”

topic: Powerful, Earth Day, Arrogance, Postmodernism, Constructivism

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

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

topic: Nature, Color, Earth Day, Nature Beauty, Green World

Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.

- Pete Seeger

topic: People, Earth Day, Needs

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

- Ralph Nader

topic: Fun, Oil, Earth Day, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that can be attained, then even if we have less energy at our command and fewer material goods available, we might nevertheless still increase our satisfaction in life.

- Richard Heinberg

source: Richard Heinberg (2011). “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality”, p.259, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

topic: Frustration, Goal, Earth Day, Satisfaction In Life

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

- Richard Rogers

topic: Earth Day, Environmental, Quality, World Environment, Environmental History

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

- Robert Redford

topic: Nature, Thinking, Earth Day, Natural Things, One With Nature

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

- Vandana Shiva

topic: Earth Day, Way, Making Peace

Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.

- Viktor Schauberger

source: "Our Senseless Toil". Book by Viktor Schauberger, 1934.

topic: Mother, Earth Day, World, Mother Earth

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

- Wendell Berry

topic: Nature, Garden, Earth Day, Inspirational Environmental, Earth Friendly

The earth is what we all have in common.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Earth Day, Earth, Common, Inspirational Earth, World Earth Day

Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?

- Alan Caruba

topic: Earth Day, Environmental, Doe

The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Fun, College, Earth Day

By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I had thought remotely, and in hazily speculative fashion. And now, it was approaching in a manner of which none had ever dreamed.

- William Hope Hodgson

topic: Fashion, Years, Earth Day

Shouldn't every day be Earth Day? I mean, what are our options?

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Mean, Earth Day, Earth

Today is Earth Day. Environmentalists spent the day drawing attention to the Earth, while the Earth just spent the day checking Facebook to see which planets wished it a happy Earth Day.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Drawing, Earth Day, Attention, Drawing Attention, Happy Earth Day

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

- Margaret Atwood

source: "Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

topic: Earth Day, Planets, Threat

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Earth Day, Looks, Trends

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

- Margaret Mead

topic: People, Safety, Earth Day

Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons.

- David Letterman

topic: Years, Earth Day, Example

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

topic: Earth Day, World, Ruins, Human Species

Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away.

- Denis Hayes

source: "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Pric, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

topic: Issues, People, Earth Day, Environmental Issues

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

- Barbara Kingsolver

source: Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.13, Faber & Faber

topic: Earth Day, Enemy, Treasure

Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Roots, Earth Day, May, May Day, Marxism

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

topic: Zoos, Snakes, Earth Day, Elk, Bison

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

- James F. Cooper

topic: Lonely, Nature, Earth Day, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth