33 Inspirational Earth Day Quotes to Share With Loved One

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

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

Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.

Those who try their best to save the planet will find a loose, cheerful, sexy brass band waiting to honor them right outside the Pearly Gates. What will the band be playing? ‘When the Saints Come Marching In.

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

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

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.

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

Earth rejoices in our words, breathing, and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word, and every step make the mother earth proud of us.

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

The best friend on earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth.

The environment 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.

Dear old world… You are very lovely, And I am glad to be alive in you.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.

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

The earth has its music for those who will listen,
Its bright variations forever abound;
With all the wonders that God has bequeathed us,
There is nothing that thrills like the magic of sound.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

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.

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.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.

Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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

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.

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

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

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

If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.