Have you ever read some of the best quotes about sustainability? Although this is certainly a hot topic today, the respect for the environment and love of nature has always been in the hearts and minds of writers, artists, painters, public figures, and even common people. Over the years they have tried to express their mixed feelings of love and concern towards the planet we inhabit, by also raising awareness about environmental issues and sustainability.
We have gathered the most powerful quotes about sustainability that will inspire you to do better and strive for greater respect and protection of our planet. Try to keep these thoughts in mind in your daily life: whether you are shopping, traveling and visiting new places, or just strolling around, remember that you must respect, love, and protect the environment no matter what. Enjoy!
The Most Powerful Quotes about the Importance of Protecting the Environment
Knowing your planet is a step towards protecting it. – Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. – Stewart Udall
Look after the land and the land will look after you, destroy the land and it will destroy you. – Aboriginal Proverb
An act of violence against nature should be judged as severely as that against society or another person. – Michael W.Fox
When the soil disappears, the soul disappears. – Ymber Delecto
The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. – Robert Swan
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. —Barbara Ward
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment. – Margaret Mead
The environment is no one’s property to destroy; it’s everyone’s responsibility to protect. – Mohith Agadi
We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to. – Terri Swearingen
The Best Quotes About Loving Nature: Unity Makes Strength
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. — Richard Rogers
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken. — Leo Tolstoy
We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. – Howard Zinn
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter
The poetry of the earth is never dead. — John Keats
Keep your love of nature, for that, is the true way to understand art more and more. — Vincent van Gogh
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin
Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good – Jochen Zeitz
…And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? — Vincent van Gogh
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. — George Washington Carver
Sustainability takes forever, and that’s the point. – William McDonough
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. ― Vincent Van Gogh
Quotes about the 3-R’s rule: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use. —Mother Teresa
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make. — Jane Goodall
The trouble is, you think you have time. – Jack Kornfield
Only we humans make waste that nature can’t digest. – Charles Moore
Our planet’s alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action – Leonardo DiCaprio
Recycle the present, save the future – Anonymous
Waste isn’t waste until we waste it.—Will.I.Am
If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired
Rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold
Recycled or composted
Then it should be restricted, redesigned
Or removed from production – Pete Seeger, “If it can’t be reduced”
Live simply so that others may simply live. – Mahatma Gandhi
Consume less; share better. – Hervé Kempf
Our past, our present, and whatever remain of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. – Sylvia Earle
Thought-provoking Quotes about Sustainability in Shopping
As consumers, we have so much power to change the world by just being careful in what we buy –Emma Watson.
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. – Vivienne Westwood.
Fashion can be a universal player in protecting the planet – Pharrell Williams
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness. — Mahatma Gandhi
Fashion shouldn’t cost the earth – Environmental Audit Committee, UK house of commons
As a designer, I like to work with fabrics that don’t bleed. That’s why I avoid all animal skins.— Stella McCartney
What if we started by slowing down and not consuming so much stuff, just because it’s there and cheap and available. It’s amazing how that process makes sense financially, it makes sense ethically, it makes sense environmentally. — Andrew Morgan
Can we really consume our way out of consumerism? – Michelle Haworth
I want to bring a message which is veganism, and that there doesn’t have to be torture in fabulous fashion. You can be stylish, and sustainable all at the same time. — Miley Cyrus
Quotes About the Importance of Protecting the Oceans
No water, no life. No blue, no green. — Sylvia Earle
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau
We know that when we protect our oceans we’re protecting our future. — Bill Clinton
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came. — John F. Kennedy
Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void. – Fabien Cousteau
The sea cures all ailments of man. – Plato
I said that the oceans were sick but they’re not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans — there will always be life — but they’re getting sicker every year. – Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Caring for water is caring for us all. – The Dharma Trail
If you save water, water will save you – India Celebrating
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us. – Sylvia Earle
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. – Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The human desire to obtain more is a sieve that can never be filled with all the water from the world’s oceans. – Will Bowen
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea. – Sylvia Earle
Quotes About the Importance of Trees
Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish. ― Munia Khan
He that plants trees loves others beside himself. – Thomas Fuller
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
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ― Martin Luther
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. ― John Muir
Two years he walks the Earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist […] No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. — Jon Krakauer, “Into the Wild”
People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world that will not sustain people. ― Bryce Nelson
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
[…] When the green dark forest was too silent to be real — Gordon Lightfoot, “The Canadian Railroad Trilogy”
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
Trees give peace to the souls of men. ― Nora Waln
To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, to live as a people, we must have trees. ― Theodore Roosevelt