World Environment Day Quotes

World Environment Day Quotes

Some of the famous quotes (written by the famous personalities) on world environment day are mentioned below:

• “The environment is everything that isn’t me”. – Albert Einstein
• “God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools”. – John Muir
• “Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth”. – Henry David Thoreau
• “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”. – Margaret Mead
• “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment”. – Margaret Mead
• “It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment”. – Ansel Adams
• “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”? – Robert Redford
• “Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you”. – John Muir
• “Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble”. – Roger Tory Peterson
• “By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water”. – Aeschylus
• “If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either”. – Joseph Wood Krutch
• “They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse”. – Sitting Bull
• “Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land”. – Aldo Leopold
• “After all, sustainability means running the global environment – Earth Inc. – like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital”. – Maurice Strong
• “Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left”. – Aldo Leopold
• “You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life”. -Jacob Bronowski
• “People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves”. – Robert Collier
• “I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment”. – Pat Buckley
• “We must return to nature and nature’s god”. – Luther Burbank
• “The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved”. – Richard Rogers
• “Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium”. – Paul Tsongas
• “Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don’t stop at a nation’s borders”. – Warren Christopher
• “I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities”. – Brian Mulroney
• “Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art”. – Barry Commoner
• “Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it”. – Barry Commoner
• “The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented”. – Dixie Lee Ray
• “Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation”? – Gale Norton
• “The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture”. – Gaylord Nelson
• “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed”. – Mahatma Gandhi
• “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