- World Environment Day Quotes
- Quotes on Earth Day / Environment Quotes
- New Environment Quotes
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World Environment Day Quotes
World Environment Day is a global platform for raising awareness on environmental issues to participate from over 143 countries annually to encouraging awareness and action for the protection of the environment and (WED) is celebrated annually on 5 June.
First held in 1974, it has been a platform for raising awareness on environmental issue such as marine pollution, human overpopulation, global warming, sustainable consumption and wildlife crime.
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
― Aldo Leopold
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurvey and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“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, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
― John Keats
“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Familiar Letters
“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”
― George Carlin
Quotes on Earth Day/ Environment Quotes
World Environment Day Quotes
“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
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee
“People would rather believe than know.”
― Edward O. Wilson
Quotes on Earth Day
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
― Ansel Adams
Environment, Earth Day Slogans
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed … We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water
“All my life I’d been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine’s thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?”
― Walt Disney
“My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
“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
“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
“We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they’re going to sit”
― David Suzuki
“Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.”
― Billie-Jo Williams
“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.”
― Kenneth Boulding
“People ‘over-produce’ pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.”
― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism
“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.”
― Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village
“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.”
― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature
“Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.”
― George Monbiot
“Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an “Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition” right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?”
― Arianna Huffington
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
New Environment Quotes
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
― Albert Einstein
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
― E. F. Schumacher
A new environment encourages us to be more mindful and present, as we’re more likely to notice and appreciate new surroundings.
― Michael Klim
The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done – challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
― Jean Houston
We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.
― Norbert Wiener
The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.
― Andy Grove
If I’m experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.
-Alessia Cara
When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.
-Beth Moore
The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling – to get yourself outside.
-Barton Seaver
“Hard” science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.
-Jack Williamson
Don’t put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family’s life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn’t move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.
-Arthur Hailey
The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.
-Jeremy Grantham
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
-Marshall McLuhan
Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.
-Betty Buckley
Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.
-Craig Stone
When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn’t even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you’re thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can’t expect people to change if I don’t try to model it and lead it.
― Hillary Clinton
I think it’s really useful to create parameters. The term you use can be forwarded into something more like a grid, a rubric, a system that you apply to all environments, and in so doing you create a situation in which you can locate local color, local differences within new environments.
-Kehinde Wiley
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.
-Philip K. Dick
Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.
-Arie de Geus
I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it’s just a matter of reframing what’s around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.
-Kenneth Goldsmith
Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.
-Marshall McLuhan
I think that when you go on a shamanic journey, you’re allowing yourself to have much more access to your unconscious or your sense of connection within the universe, whatever you want to call that. You’ve accessed places in your brain that you don’t normally. You’re still there – it’s your brain. But you have access in a way that you normally don’t. For me, doing that felt like being in a new environment.
-Amy Hardie
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else. The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.
-Bill Drayton
I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime.
-Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language.
-Anousheh Ansari
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