World Environment Day 2023: Important Quotes, Date, Theme, History, Importance And Much More

World Environment Day is observed annually on June 05 across the globe.  The main reason behind the celebration is to raise awareness about environmental problems and how we can take steps to tackle them. Certainly its out duty to keep the globe environment friendly and also protect to it for our coming generation as well. The efforts to observe the World Environment Day is also to engage to protect and restore the Earth. 

Theme for World Environment Day 23

As you know, every year agencies use to provide a new theme to observe the World Environment Day which allow to draw attention to different aspects of environmental problems facing in the current situation of the year. 

This year marks the event’s 50th anniversary of the World Environment Day and it is the  reminder that people’s actions on plastic pollution matters which is the theme for this year-#BeatPlasticPollution.

World Environment Day: History 

World Environment Day has its own importance which has achieved a global attention from the people of globe. It has raised several crucial concerns among the people regarding the environmental challenges of our times. This UN international day has become the largest global platform for environmental outreach, with millions of people from across the world engaging to protect the planet.

Important  Quotes

1. “We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.” – Albert Einstein 
2. “Environment is no one’s property to destroy; it’s everyone’s responsibility to protect.” – Mohith Agadi 
3. "Plastic pollution is a battle we can win if we refuse, reduce, reuse, and recycle." - Unknown
4. “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.”— Mother Teresa
5. “A nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt 
6. “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” – Robert Swan 
7. “Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.” —Lao Tzu
8. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi 
9. “The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on water, but to walk on the earth.” —Chinese proverb
10. “The environment is everything that isn’t me.” – Albert Einstein 
11. “The sun does not forget a village just because it is small.” —African Proverb
12. “In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.” – Aristotle