Top 100 Environment Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

— John Muir

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2. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

— John Muir

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3. “Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes

4. “When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”

— Alanis Obomsawin

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Nature Quotes, Quotes About the World

5. “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Also featured in: Future Quotes

6. “Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

— John Muir

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7. “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

Also featured in: Nature Quotes

8. “We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.”

— Steve Irwin

Also featured in: Caring Quotes, Nature Quotes

9. “What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.”

— David Attenborough

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Future Quotes, Nature Quotes

10. “In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.”

— David Suzuki

Also featured in: Nature Quotes

11. “Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.”

— Chief Seattle

Also featured in: Nature Quotes, Respect Quotes

12. “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”

— David Attenborough

Also featured in: Nature Quotes

13. “Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.”

— Barry Commoner

14. “Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.”

— Carl Sagan

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15. “Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Energy Quotes

16. “Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Also featured in: Important Quotes

17. “It’s up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it’s up to you and me.”

— Jane Goodall

18. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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19. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

— Dr. Seuss

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20. “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.”

— Chief Seattle

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21. “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Quotes About the World, Quotes About Home

22. “When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”

— Wangari Maathai

Also featured in: Quotes About Hope, Peace Quotes, Quotes About the World

23. “Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.”

— Vivienne Westwood

Also featured in: Quality Quotes

24. “There is no such thing as away. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere.”

— Annie Leonard

25. “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

Also featured in: Quotes About Greed

26. “The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.”

— Pope Francis

27. “Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Quotes About Humanity, Peace Quotes

28. “A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.”

— Carl Sagan

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29. “Global warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening.”

— James Hansen

30. “We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.”

— Richard Louv

31. “The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.”

— Dr. Seuss

32. “Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.”

— Fritjof Capra

33. “Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man.”

— Chief Seattle

34. “Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet.”

— Tristram Stuart

35. “Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”

— Wendell Berry

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36. “The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.”

— John Muir

37. “Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.”

— Bill Gates

38. “You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”

— Vandana Shiva

39. “Your life matters. You can’t live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what’s most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.”

— Jane Goodall

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes

40. “Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.”

— Paul Hawken

41. “The future will either be green or not at all.”

— Bob Brown

42. “The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.”

— William Wordsworth

43. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

— Chinese proverb

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44. “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

45. “Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.”

— Nikola Tesla

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Innovation Quotes, Energy Quotes

46. “Environment is stronger than will power.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

47. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Appreciation Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

48. “The things of nature are the Lord’s silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.”

— Ellen G. White

49. “To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

50. “You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?”

— W. Clement Stone