What are some of your favorite Earth Day images and quotes?
Saturday, April 22 will mark the 2017 edition of Earth Day, featuring plenty of activities around the globe designed to raise awareness over the things hurting our planet and ways we can help it.
We’re all responsible for our fair share of carbon emissions, and the day is designed to highlight ways in which we can reduce them in order to ensure that we live longer.
We have compiled some of the best images that honor the day, as well as quotes that remind us how lucky we are to have this planet.
Browse through the next few slides, pick your favorites and share them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media sites.
Earth Day Quotes
- “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”-John Muir
- “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.”-Gandhi
Earth Day Quotes
- “We have met the enemy and he is us.”-Walt Kelly
- “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”-Native American Proverb
Earth Day Quotes
- “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
- “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.”-Henry David Thoreau
Earth Day Quotes
- “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”-Rachel Carson
- “He that plants trees loves others beside himself.”-Thomas Fuller
Earth Day Quotes
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”-Albert Einstein
- “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”-J.R.R. Tolkien