Here are 30 quotes to save the earth, to act for the environment, for our planet, and for the future of humanity:
Words can be powerful. The things we say can make a difference. But it is the things we do that really count.
- “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” —Chinese Proverb
- “It is our collective and individual responsibility … to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.” —Dalai Lama
- “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another … ” —Mahatma Gandhi
- “To damage the earth is to damage your children.” —Wendell Berry
- “We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.” —Stephen Hawking
- “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” —Robert Swan
- “The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.” —David Attenborough
- “Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air or drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something.” – Carl Sagen
- “We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.”– Barbara Ward
- “Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” – Bill Gates
- “I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.”– Frances Beinecke
- “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
- “The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”– Henry David Thoreau
- “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
- “All the world’s problems can be solved in a garden.” – Geoff Lawton
- “There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.” – Bill Mollison
- “When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem.” –David Holmgren
- “ If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.” – Masanobu Fukuoka
- “Nature’s book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.” – Sepp Holzer
- “A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.” Toby Hemenway
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- “Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process – green plants growing on regenerating soil.” – Allan Savory
- “Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth’s capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.” – George Monbiot
- “Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?” – Jane Goodall
- “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.” —Mother Teresa
- “He that plants trees loves others besides himself.” —Thomas Fuller
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” —Margaret Mead
- “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.” —John Paul II
- “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
30.“Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming whether you like it or not.” – Greta Thunberg
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