World Environment Day is one of the largest events celebrated by over 143 countries across the globe to honour and recognize the significance of nature and the environment. World Environment Day is celebrated on the 5th of June every year.
The first-ever World Environment Day was celebrated in 1974 and hosted by the United Nations General Assembly.
The United Nations General Assembly decided to gather all nations together to spread awareness about conserving our mother nature as well as issues like climate change, water pollution, air pollution, Global Warming and every other issue which are impacting our environment.
Every year, a different country hosts the celebration of Environment Day. The theme for World Environment Day depends on the various environmental problems that have to differ from year to year.
The first World Environment Day was celebrated with the theme of ‘Only one Earth’.
For almost five decades, World Environment Day has been raising awareness, supporting action, and driving changes for the environment. Every person on Earth needs to promote some basic environmental conservation ideas. No other day can be better than this one to create the environment quotes and spread awareness.
So, I have compiled a collection of some of my favourite Environment Day quotations. Following World Environment Day quotes may easily motivate people and help spread awareness about the importance of our environment.
You can use such Quotes to encourage common people in your society or community.
World Environment Day Quotes
- “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
- “To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.” - Bill Nye
- “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and my soul.” - John Muir
- “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
- “The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” - John Muir
- “An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfilment.” - David Attenborough
- “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” - John Keats
- “Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.” - Lao Tzu
- “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” -Gary Snyder
- “To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.” - Jane Austen
- “We still do not know one-thousandth of one per cent of what nature has revealed to us.” -Albert Einstein
- “We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.” - Elon Musk
- “Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” - Bill Gates
- “If you really think that the environment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money.” -Guy McPherson
- “People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.” - Robert Collier
- “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble”. - Roger Tory Peterson
- “This is not a partisan debate; it is a human one. Clean air and Water, and a livable climate are inalienable human rights. And solving this crisis is not a question of politics. It is our moral obligation.” -Leonardi DiCaprio
- “The environment is everything that isn’t me.” - Albert Einstein
- “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 only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.” - Richard Rogers
- “Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security, and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.” - Ban Ki-moon
- “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” - Mahatma Gandhi
- “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” - Robert Swan
- “A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature’s demands -except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.” - Eugene M. Poirot
- “ In all things of nature, there is something of the marvellous.” - Aristotle
- “What is the use of a house if you don’t have a decent planet to put it on?” - Henry David Thoreau
- “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
- “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” - John Muir
- “When a man says to me, “I have the intensest love of nature,” at once I know that he has none.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it’s common sense.” - Ronald Reagan
- “Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.” - Jackie Speier
- “All we have to do is to wake up and change: - Greta Thunberg
- “We are on earth to take care of life. We are on Earth to take care of each other.” - Xiye Bastida
- “The most environmentally friendly product is the one you didn’t buy.” - Joshua Becker
- “What about naming trees?... if we have a tree in our name, we want that tree to live.” -Jane Goodall
- “You don’t have to sit outside in the dark. If however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.” - Annie Dillard
- “We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.” - Barack Obama
- “Together we can preserve the forest, securing this immense treasure for the future of all these children.” -Chico Mendes
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein
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