163 Save Mother Earth Quotes

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Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days. — Neil Young

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it — Ban Ki-moon

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed! — Hildegard of Bingen

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. — Sitting Bull

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. — Wendell Berry

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. - Gaylord Nelson

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. — Gaylord Nelson

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves. — Bobby McLeod

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. — Crazy Horse

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. — Wendell Berry

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

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

The Earth needs rebels! — David Icke

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. - Jane Goodall

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. — Jane Goodall

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. — Chief Joseph

Short Save Mother Earth Quotes

  • Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. — Chief Seattle
  • I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children. — Mark Udall
  • We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children — Chief Seattle
  • To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment. — Jacque Fresco
  • This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent. — Doreen Valiente
  • Protect the ocean and you protect yourself. — Jean-Michel Cousteau

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Save mother earth quote Rushing never saved the time that planning did.
Rushing never saved the time that planning did.

Save Earth Quotes

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller

I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to. — Leonard Peltier

You have one business on earth – to save souls. - John Wesley

You have one business on earth – to save souls. — John Wesley

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. — Wallace Stegner

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from. — Terry Tempest Williams

Save mother earth quote No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only. — Alexander Maclaren

In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. — J. I. Packer

Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth. — Barack Obama

Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save. — John Stott

Save The Planet Quotes

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. — Barack Obama

I believe that Elon Musk understands this important dynamic. For goodness sake, one of his top priorities is saving the planet. — Cathie Wood

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. — Chris Hedges

Save mother earth quote Be still, and the earth will speak to you.
Be still, and the earth will speak to you.

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. — George Carlin

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves. — Michael Crichton

Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself. — L. Ron Hubbard

Save mother earth quote If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.
If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much. — James H. Cone

The human race will be the cancer of the planet. — Julian Huxley

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort. — Sharon Gannon

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty. — Paul McCartney

Save Our Planet Quotes

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. — Denis Hayes

Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The ocean, more than any other part of our planet, ... is a classic example of the absolute need for international global action. — Thor Heyerdahl

Save mother earth quote When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life

Forests are the lungs of our land. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return — Barack Obama

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good — George Meyer

Save mother earth quote No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one way. We ourselves must walk the path.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one way. We ourselves must walk the path.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama

We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet. — Jeff Corwin

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril — Barack Obama

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal. — Ban Ki-moon

Saving The Earth Quotes

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them. — Chief Seattle

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. — Henrik Tikkanen

Save mother earth quote Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity. — Fujio Cho

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. — James G. Watt

Save mother earth quote Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. — Eric Knight

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face — John Drinkwater

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. — Paul Brooks

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth. — John Ruskin

Save The Environment Quotes

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now — Bernie Sanders

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. — Ansel Adams

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. — David Attenborough

Save mother earth quote The earth has music for those who listen.
The earth has music for those who listen.

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. — Albert Einstein

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity — Chico Mendes

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts — Aldo Leopold

Save mother earth quote All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother.
All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff

Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual who cannot help to make a difference to the health of the environment — Ian Kiernan

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. — Chris Hadfield

Everyday, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals, but helps the environment. — Kat Von D

Save Nature Quotes

We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. — Prince Ea

I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction. — Marco Pantani

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love. — Stephen Jay Gould

Save mother earth quote Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. — David Suzuki

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature. — Naomi Klein

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future. — Wallace Stegner

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will. — Joseph Glanvill

Mother Nature's ruthless to the weak, but isn't arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses consistent leadership--to help keep things running smoothly. Mother nature doesn't rule by fear and anger, but by calm strength and assertiveness. — Cesar Millan

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from — Daphne Zuniga

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

Mother Earth Quotes

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. — John Henrik Clarke

All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. — Chief Joseph

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. — John Muir

We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die. — Chief Seattle

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. — Luther Standing Bear

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

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork. — Masanobu Fukuoka

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him? — Massasoit

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone. — Janine Benyus

To reach your heart, as every indigenous tribe I know has told me, you must first remember your Divine Mother... Your Mother is alive and very much conscious... Earth is not a rock, she has a name and a personality in the cosmos. And believe me, she knows your name. — Drunvalo Melchizedek

Save The World Quotes

Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone. - David Livingstone

Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone. — David Livingstone

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. — Albert Einstein

If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life. — Igor Sikorsky

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. - David Carson

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. - Saint Dominic

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. — Saint Dominic

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world. — Vandana Shiva

Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives. — Jamie Oliver

If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved. — Pope Pius X

I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved. — Bartolome de las Casas

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it. — Barbara Brown Taylor

World Earth Day Quotes

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world. — Federico Garcia Lorca

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. - William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. — William Blake

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. - John Muir

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. — John Muir

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there. — J. R. R. Tolkien

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum. — Edward Abbey

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

Celebrate Earth Day every day. — John Denver

Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing. — Donald Worster

Earth Day Quotes

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise. - Jeannette Walls

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise. — Jeannette Walls

Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Tennyson

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all. — Vandana Shiva

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth. — Ptolemy

If you do not give 110% in your life, I promise your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. Time is the most valuable asset on Earth, a depreciating asset, don’t waste another moment of life where you are not at your fullest potential getting the most out of the time you have in life. — Greg Plitt

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. - Crazy Horse

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. — Crazy Horse

I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods. — Ptolemy

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out. — Sylvia Plath

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More Save Mother Earth Quotes

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. — William Rathje

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. — David Foreman

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. — Jacques Barzun

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. — Rene Dubos

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. — Rene Dubos

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. — John Burroughs

Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. — Hans Arp

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons. — William Ralph Inge

The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself. — Henry Fairlie

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. — Mahatma Gandhi

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. — P. J. O'Rourke

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. — David Ehrenfeld

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! — Paul MacCready

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. — Bill Vaughan

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. — Jeremy Rifkin

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. — Al Gore

The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. — Chief Seattle

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. — Ernest Jones

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money. — Kenneth E. Boulding

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. — Richard G. Wilkinson

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out. — Horace

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. — Edward Abbey

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. — Rene Dubos

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. — Michel de Montaigne

Man maketh a death which Nature never made. — Edward Young

Water flows uphill towards money. — Marc Reisner

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot. — Samuel Goldwyn

Probably hundreds of thousands of saved pregnant mothers are going to be going up in the Rapture, and you know good and well they are going to have their babies either in Heaven or when they get back to Earth in the Millennium! — David Berg

Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is. — Elbert Hubbard

When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground. we never forget them. — Oren Lyons

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