Environmental Quotes

You've come to the right place for famous environmental quotes, eco quotes and earth friendly quotes. Having spent several years in the field of environmental education I have been able to use these environmental sayings to motivate our future generations to care for our planet and to protect Mother Earth.

Please enjoy these eco quotes and share them with your friends, students and community members. Help to make the world a better place. Be inspired!

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need,
but not for every man's greed."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Famous Environmental Quotes

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
- Henry David Thoreau


"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
- Aldo Leopold


"As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature."
- Richard Louv


"Man did not weave the web of life...he is merely a strand in that web...whatever he does to the web...he does to himself."
- Chief Seattle


"The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the native American shared this elemental ethic. The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures...During the long Indian tenure the land remained undefiled save for scars no deeper than the scratches of cornfield clearings."
- Stewart Lee Udall


"Take care of the land, and it will take care of you. Take what you need from the land, but need what you take."
- Aboriginal law


"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
- Rachel Carson

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