Best 80 quotes in «earth day quotes» category

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.

Human beings cannot live without stories.

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

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

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.

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?

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

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

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.

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.

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

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

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

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.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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.

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

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.

The earth is what we all have in common.

Strange is our situation here upon earth.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

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

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.

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

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

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

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.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

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.

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.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

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.

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.

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

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.

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

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

We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

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.

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

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.