We’ve compiled a list of environmental quotes from global figures to inspire you to take action and educate people around you on different engaging topics such as sustainability, ethical fashion, food waste, air pollution and waste disposal. Enjoy these environment quotes!
Inspiring Environment Quotes
1) “To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem.” –Douglas P. Wheeler
2) “Plastic will be the main ingredient of all our grandchildren’s recipes.” –Anthony T. Hincks
3) “We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.” –Terri Swearingen
4) “Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” –Stewart Udall
5) “If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.” –Satish Kumar
6) “The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.”-Richard Rogers
7) “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8) “There is no such thing as “away”, when we throw something away it must go somewhere.” –Annie Leonard
9) “The best friend of earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth.” –Frank Lloyd Wright
10) “Climate change is not just a problem for the future. It is impacting us every day, everywhere.” –Vandana Shiva
11) “To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.” –Theodore Roosevelt
12) “We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone is arguing over where they’re going to sit” –David Suzuki
13) “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” –Jane Goodall
14) “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.” –Pope John Paul II
15) “Environment is no one’s property to destroy; it’s everyone’s responsibility to protect.” –Mohith Agadi
16) “Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option. They will become a necessity.” –Fujio Cho
17) “When the people lead, the leaders will follow” –Mahatma Gandhi
18) “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it”-Robert Swan
19) “Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest.” –Vinita Kinra
20) “He that plants trees loves others beside himself.” –Thomas Fuller
21) “There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.” –Mahatma Gandhi
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22) “Everyone has the power to make a difference, to themselves and others, and to our world.” –Yasmin Davar
23) “Without habitats, animals would move in with man.” –Anthony T.Hincks
24) “Protecting our environment is not a luxury we can choose to enjoy, but a simple matter of survival.” –Auliq-Ice
25) “To damage the earth is to damage your children.” –Wendall Berry
26) “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
27) “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” –Mahatma Gandhi
28) “We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.” –Jackie Kennedy
29) “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.” –Chris Maser
30) “I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.” –Denis Hayes
31) “Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.” –Aldo Leopold
32) “Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.” –Pope Francis
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33) “The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”-Lady Bird Johnson
34) “People ‘over-produce’ pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.” –Ha-Joon Chang
35) “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” –Henry David Thoreau
36) “Fast fashion isn’t free. Someone, somewhere is paying.” –Lucy Siegle
37) “We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.” –Barbara Ward
38) “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together … all things connect.” –Chief Seattle
39) “Water is life, and clean water means health.” –Audrey Hepburn
40) “It’s the little things that citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.” –Wangari Maathai
41) “You’re either for the environment or against the environment.” –Mommy Moo Moo
42) “Our planet’s alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action.” –Leonardo DiCaprio
43) “You waste life when you waste good food.” –Katherine Anne Porter
44) “[The movement to address climate change is] about something deeper than [justice], it’s about solidarity. Human solidarity.” –Bill McKibben
45) “It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.” –Dalai Lama
46) “Demand quality not just in the products you buy, but in the life of the person who made it.” –Orsola de Castro
47) “The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.” – Marya Mannes
48) “Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.” –Nick Joaquín
49) “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.” –Mother Teresa
50) “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to be dispersed because we’ve been ignorant of their value.”-R. Buckminster Fuller
Let us know what you think of this collection of environment quotes. If you’re still looking for more inspiration beyond just environment quotes, here’s a list of things you could do to protect Mother Earth.
