Inspiring Quotes for Earth Day

Book Recs

Apr 15

Written By Laura McDonell

Looking for the best quotes for Earth Day? Scroll down for quotes about sustainability, recycling, and living an eco-friendly life.

Earth Day Quote Zero Waste — “We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.”

Anne Marie Bonneau

Instagram Quotes46456.jpg — “You have to hold yourself accountable
for your actions, and that’s how we’re
going to protect the Earth.”

Julia Butterfly Hill

Instagram Quotes67878.jpg — “Consume less; share better.”
Herve Kempt

Instagram Quotes536345.jpg — “As consumers we have so much power to change the world just by being careful in what we buy.”

Emma Watson

Instagram Quotes687567.jpg — “It cannot be right to manufacture billions of objects that are used for a matter of minutes, and are with us for centuries.”

Roz Savage

Earth Day Quote — “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

Anne Frank

Earth Day Quote Annie Leonard — “There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere.”

Annie Leonard

Earth Day Quote Edward Everett Hale — “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.”

Edward Everett Hale

Earth Day Quote Robert Swan — “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”

Robert Swan

Earth Day Quote Wendell Ber — “The Earth is what we all have in common.”

Wendell Berry

Earth Day Quote Howard Zinn — “If we only see the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something; we don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”

Howard Zinn

Earth Day Quote Howard Zinn — “Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.”

Howard Zinn

Earth Day Quote Native American Proverb — “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children".”

Native American Proverb

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Oof. This is a hard one for me.

I have spent a lifetime trying to erase the element of “the unknown”. I wanted to make everything “known”, everything predictable, everything safe.

It has been impossible and exhausting. I&r

I mean, really.

I have a dream of becoming a librarian when I retire. 📚

Have you read American Dirt by @jeaninecummins? I loved it!

The Mess That We Made is a cumulative story (think “There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly”). The way in which the words build and rhyme pulls readers right in (“This is the seal / That eats the fish / That swim in the mess that

IYKNK.

Have you read @kileyreid’s “Such A Fun Age”? It’s one of my fave reads this year.

This book is just so summer-y and bright and fresh and darling that I had to renew it three times from the library because I didn’t want to take it off the shelf. 🐚

I have a soft spot for books about girls and their grandfathers, and this bo

Maybe I’m feeling sentimental because it’s my anniversary weekend, but this quote from The Windsor Knot got me.

Even the Queen of England had her person who just “got” her. For like, 70 years.

Who is your person? 💕

In my next life, I want to be Leopold.

Leopold looooves to dance, and he gets to demonstrate this during his ballet dance classes. The much-anticipated recital is coming up, and Leopold is super excited!, until they’re told that they will be d

I finished Sally Hepworth’s “The Good Sister” and this has to be my favourite quote from the whole book. Does this not just immediately remind you of someone difficult in your life - a student, a loved one, a coworker - and make you

Nattiq and the Land of Statues is a beautiful book about a ringed seal (“nattiq”) who tells his Arctic friends of the north of the wonders that he saw in his travels south. 🦭

I love the interwoven Inuktitut words in this story. There i

Can I just say that I miss posting quotes? I was doing a bunch for a while but eventually had so many books that I wanted to share, I didn’t have the space for them in my feed. But I came across this quote in the book that I’m reading and

Can you guys believe I made it to July 12 before talking about Plastic-Free July?

I have about a bazillion things to say about this, but since I don’t have the capacity to say them all, I’ll let author-illustrator Alma Fullerton take the

Thanks @simonkids for the Nerdycorn craft inspiration! 🦄

We love Nerdycorn and all of her unique interests. Have you read it!?

🦄 Author: @andrewrootbooks
🌈 Illustrator: @erin_kraan
🧬 Publisher: @beachlanebooks

Did you know that during National Poetry Month in April, National Poem in Your Pocket Day shares the way poetry brings joy by simply carrying a poem your pocket. When you share the poem, you'll bring joy to others.

Ummmm SIGN ME UP.

I think being

Posting this as a reminder to dance in the rain rather than whine about it! 🌧

It’s the first rainy afternoon of our cottage week and my husband I were struggling to think of something to do with the girls. We tried dancing, bubbles and even

🇨🇦 Although Canada Day looked different for us this year, I still enjoy reading as many Canadian authors as I can during the month of July. Here’s a stack that we got from the library recently.

Who is your favourite Canadian children’

A fine motor post, if I may ☝🏼

The scratch cards at Dollarama are AWESOME for fine motor practice. I found these with five different designs 🦁 🦈 🐱 🐶 🦄 with two cards for each design. It was more than enough to keep little missy occupied for a

Imagine keeping a secret for 100 years?

Based on the true story of Canadian Clarence Brazier, this captivating story was written by Canadian author Roy MacGregor and his daughter Christine, and illustrated by Mathilde Cinq-Mars.

For 100 years, Clar

“You have to teach them over and over with a lot of love and patience. Some grandmothers are hard of hearing and some cannot see properly, so you have to go close to them and teach them again and again loudly.” - Sheetal Prakash More, a t

I lost my talk
The talk you took away.
When I was a little girl
At Shubenacadie school.

You snatched it away:
I speak like you
I think like you
I create like you
The scrambled ballad, about my word.

Two ways I talk
Both ways I say,
Your way is mo

“I have big feelings.
You have them, too.
How can I help?
What can we do?”

It’s all fun and games until big feelings clash and tumble and tug and compete. Alexandra Penfold does it again with this bright rhyming picture book abo

Oof. This is a hard one for me.

I have spent a lifetime trying to erase the element of “the unknown”. I wanted to make everything “known”, everything predictable, everything safe.

It has been impossible and exhausting. I&r

I mean, really.

I have a dream of becoming a librarian when I retire. 📚

Have you read American Dirt by @jeaninecummins? I loved it!

The Mess That We Made is a cumulative story (think “There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly”). The way in which the words build and rhyme pulls readers right in (“This is the seal / That eats the fish / That swim in the mess that

IYKNK.

Have you read @kileyreid’s “Such A Fun Age”? It’s one of my fave reads this year.

This book is just so summer-y and bright and fresh and darling that I had to renew it three times from the library because I didn’t want to take it off the shelf. 🐚

I have a soft spot for books about girls and their grandfathers, and this bo

Maybe I’m feeling sentimental because it’s my anniversary weekend, but this quote from The Windsor Knot got me.

Even the Queen of England had her person who just “got” her. For like, 70 years.

Who is your person? 💕

In my next life, I want to be Leopold.

Leopold looooves to dance, and he gets to demonstrate this during his ballet dance classes. The much-anticipated recital is coming up, and Leopold is super excited!, until they’re told that they will be d

I finished Sally Hepworth’s “The Good Sister” and this has to be my favourite quote from the whole book. Does this not just immediately remind you of someone difficult in your life - a student, a loved one, a coworker - and make you

Nattiq and the Land of Statues is a beautiful book about a ringed seal (“nattiq”) who tells his Arctic friends of the north of the wonders that he saw in his travels south. 🦭

I love the interwoven Inuktitut words in this story. There i

Can I just say that I miss posting quotes? I was doing a bunch for a while but eventually had so many books that I wanted to share, I didn’t have the space for them in my feed. But I came across this quote in the book that I’m reading and

Can you guys believe I made it to July 12 before talking about Plastic-Free July?

I have about a bazillion things to say about this, but since I don’t have the capacity to say them all, I’ll let author-illustrator Alma Fullerton take the

Thanks @simonkids for the Nerdycorn craft inspiration! 🦄

We love Nerdycorn and all of her unique interests. Have you read it!?

🦄 Author: @andrewrootbooks
🌈 Illustrator: @erin_kraan
🧬 Publisher: @beachlanebooks

Did you know that during National Poetry Month in April, National Poem in Your Pocket Day shares the way poetry brings joy by simply carrying a poem your pocket. When you share the poem, you'll bring joy to others.

Ummmm SIGN ME UP.

I think being

Posting this as a reminder to dance in the rain rather than whine about it! 🌧

It’s the first rainy afternoon of our cottage week and my husband I were struggling to think of something to do with the girls. We tried dancing, bubbles and even

🇨🇦 Although Canada Day looked different for us this year, I still enjoy reading as many Canadian authors as I can during the month of July. Here’s a stack that we got from the library recently.

Who is your favourite Canadian children’

A fine motor post, if I may ☝🏼

The scratch cards at Dollarama are AWESOME for fine motor practice. I found these with five different designs 🦁 🦈 🐱 🐶 🦄 with two cards for each design. It was more than enough to keep little missy occupied for a

Imagine keeping a secret for 100 years?

Based on the true story of Canadian Clarence Brazier, this captivating story was written by Canadian author Roy MacGregor and his daughter Christine, and illustrated by Mathilde Cinq-Mars.

For 100 years, Clar

“You have to teach them over and over with a lot of love and patience. Some grandmothers are hard of hearing and some cannot see properly, so you have to go close to them and teach them again and again loudly.” - Sheetal Prakash More, a t

I lost my talk
The talk you took away.
When I was a little girl
At Shubenacadie school.

You snatched it away:
I speak like you
I think like you
I create like you
The scrambled ballad, about my word.

Two ways I talk
Both ways I say,
Your way is mo

“I have big feelings.
You have them, too.
How can I help?
What can we do?”

It’s all fun and games until big feelings clash and tumble and tug and compete. Alexandra Penfold does it again with this bright rhyming picture book abo

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