Earth Day Quotes

Celebrate April 22nd with one of these famous Earth Day Quotes. Like the Earth Day Poems, these words were quoted long before the first Earth Day.

"All of the flowers of all of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today." -Chinese proverb

"Every day is Earth Day." -Unknown

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." -Native American Proverb

"We cannot solve the problems we have created with the same thinking that created them."
-Albert Einstein

"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

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead

"We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do." -Barbara Ward

"I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use our natural resources, but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or rob by wasteful use, the generations that come after us." -Theodore Roosevelt

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

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
-Henry David Thoreau

"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." -Benjamin Franklin

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden." -Thomas Jefferson

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." -Kahlil Gibran

"Earth laughs in flowers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." -Walt Whitman

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems." -Rainer Maria Rilke

Ideas for Earth Day Quotes

Grab your favorite book and have your own Earth Day Scavenger Hunt. Here's how: Read the book again. Look for parts in the book that talk about nature, animals and so forth. Do any of these make good Earth Day quotes?

Be creative and write your own! Celebrate the planet by sharing your quotes with family and friends.

Earth Day is April 22nd! Celebrate with one of these Earth Day Ideas.