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THE SPECIAL occasion of Earth Day is observed every year on April 22 across the world. Also known as ‘International Mother Earth Day’, this special day focuses on raising awareness regarding the environmental factors that affect the planet and ways to protect it. Various countries come forward to take oaths to protect the environment and work towards a sustainable future on this day. The idea of celebrating Earth Day was suggested by John McConnell (peace activist) at the UNESCO conference in the year 1969. Later, International Earth Day was declared on 22nd April 1970. As this special day is just a few days away, we bring you some popular quotes by famous leaders to motivate you and be responsible towards the environment. 

Earth Day 2023: Quotes By Popular Leaders 

"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

"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." - John Muir

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children." - John James Audubon

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the Earth.” - Henry David Thoreau

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“We need the tonic of wildness—to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground." - Henry David Thoreau

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein

The good man is the friend of all living things.” - Gandhi

"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfilment." - David Attenborough

"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living." - David Attenborough

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“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

"Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together … all things connect." - Chief Seattle

"I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use." - Mother Teresa

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity." - Fujio Cho, President of Toyota Motors

"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 difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods. There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society, where none intrudes by the deep sea, and music in its roar. I love not man the less, but nature more." - Lord Byron

"Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favourable comparison with the products of nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life." - Thomas Edison