Top 100 Environment Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

— Carl Sagan

52. “We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.”

— Elon Musk

53. “Nothing truly wild is unclean.”

— John Muir

54. “To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.”

— Bill Nye

55. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

56. “We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.”

— John Muir

57. “Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”

— Yuri Gagarin

58. “I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.”

— John Muir

59. “The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.”

— Elon Musk

60. “There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.”

— Maria Montessori

61. “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”

— Walt Whitman

62. “In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

63. “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Khalil Gibran

64. “Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

65. “Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.”

— Arron Wood

66. “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

— Khalil Gibran

67. “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

68. “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

69. “Nature itself is the best physician.”

— Hippocrates

70. “There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.”

— Bob Ross

71. “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

72. “I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

— George Washington Carver

73. “Nature needs no help, just no interference.”

— B. J. Palmer

74. “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”

— Dr. Seuss

75. “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”

— Andy Warhol

76. “Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.”

— Ellen G. White

77. “Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.”

— Irv Kupcinet

78. “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”

— Leo Tolstoy

79. “Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved.”

— Phil Harding

80. “As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.”

— John Muir

81. “Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment.”

— David Attenborough

82. “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”

— Jane Goodall

83. “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

— William Shakespeare

84. “The planet isn’t going anywhere. We are.”

— George Carlin

85. “The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

86. “Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be.”

— Niall FitzGerald

87. “I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.”

— John Muir

88. “If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

89. “The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...”

— Khalil Gibran

90. “I’m a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.”

— Jared Leto

91. “The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

92. “The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.”

— Masanobu Fukuoka

93. “There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.”

— Bryant McGill

94. “For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

95. “You are a guest of nature – behave.”

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

96. “Man must go back to nature for information.”

— Thomas Paine

97. “Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children’s future. It is clear we must act.”

— Eliot Spitzer

98. “Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”

— Carl Sagan

99. “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

100. “Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist.”

— Winona LaDuke