Top 20 Inspiring World Environment Day Quotes
Last updated on January 3rd, 2024 at 09:50 am
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World Environment Day is observed on June 5 every year. This day was first observed in 1974 at the city of Spokane in the USA to raise consciousness about the significance of guarding the terrain.
The atmosphere we live in can be concluded as a covering that keeps life on the earth secure and sound. It plays a vital part in maintaining healthy living effects. It provides food, sanctum, air and fulfils all mortal requirements. Likewise, it maintains ecological balance on earth.
World Environment Day is an occasion to be aware of how we’re a part of nature and how privately and unequivocally we depend on it for survival.
Check here some inspiring World Environment Day quotes to spread mindfulness and make people understand that they have a part to play in restraining the loss of biodiversity and conserving nature for our future.
World Environment Day 2021: Quotes that inspire you to preserve the earth’s ecosystem.
“We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.”
Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)
“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.”
Mother Teresa
“Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble.”
Roger Tory Peterson
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi, Pyarelal Nayyar in Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase
“Environment is no one’s property to destroy; it’s everyone’s responsibility to protect.”
Mohith Agadi
“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment”
Margaret Mead
“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.”
Aristotle, Parts of Animals
“A nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself.”
Franklin D Roosevelt, Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law, February 26, 1937.
“Our planet’s alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!”
Leonardo DiCaprio, Earth Day Chairman in 2000
“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”
Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia
“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”
Joseph Wood Krutch, The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment”
Pat Buckley
“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.”
Aldo Leopold, Round River
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and one another.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The environment is everything that isn’t me.”
Albert Einstein
“The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”
Lady Bird Johnson, Speech at Yale University, White House Diary, Oct. 9, 1967
Summing Up!
To celebrate better environmental protection & conservation, we must reduce the use of plastic, promote sustainable fashion apparel and plant more trees. Let us know your favourite quotes for World Environment Day 2021 in the comments below, along with how you’ll be bringing a change towards saving the ecosystem.
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Nitesh Kucchal
Nitesh Kuchhal, an IIM Calcutta graduate, is more than an educator—he's a mentor. With a passion for leadership and entrepreneurship, and travel. He has explored over 20 countries. Beyond teaching, he dives into psychology and discusses social issues. Though he is not a history expert, he enjoys learning about it through books, adding a historical touch to his many interests.
