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ENVIRONMENT
issues.
• Encourage common
people from different society
and communities to actively
participate in the celebration as
well as become an active agent
in developing environmental
safety measures.
• Let them know that
community people are
very essential to inhibit
negative changes towards the
environmental issues.
• Encourage people to make
their nearby surroundings
safe and clean to enjoy safer,
cleaner and more prosperous
future.
World Environment
Day Theme and
Slogan
Each year celebration of the
World Environment Day is
based on the particular theme decided
by the United Nations to make the
celebration more effective by encouraging
mass people worldwide to hugely take
part in addressing environmental issues on
global scale. Year wise list of the themes
and slogans of world environment day are
mentioned below:
• The theme of the year 2016 was “Zero
tolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife”
(highlights the fight against the illegal
trade in wildlife).
• The theme of the year 2015 was “One
World, One Environment”.
• The theme of the year 2014 was “small
island developing states” or “SIDS” and
“Raise your voice, not the sea level”.
• The theme of the year 2013 was “Think.
Eat. Save.” And slogan was “Reduce Your
Foodprint”.
• The theme of the year 2012 was “Green
Economy: Does it include you?”.
• The theme of the year 2011 was
“Forests: Nature at your Service”.
• The theme of the year 2010 was “Many
Species. One Planet. One Future”.
• The theme of the year 2009 was “Your
Planet Needs You – Unite to Combat
Climate Change”.
• The theme and slogan of the year 2008
was “CO2, Kick the Habit – Towards a
Low Carbon Economy”.
• The theme of the year 2007 was
“Melting Ice – a Hot Topic?”.
• The theme of the year 2006 was
“Deserts and Desertification” and slogan
was “Don’t Desert Drylands!.”
World Environment Day
Quotes
Some of the famous quotes (written
by the famous personalities) on world
environment day are mentioned below:
• “The environment is everything that
isn’t me”. – Albert Einstein
• “God has cared for these trees, saved
them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods. But
he cannot save them from fools”. – John
Muir
• “Thank God men cannot fly, and lay
waste the sky as well as the earth”. – Henry
David Thoreau
• “Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that
ever has”. – Margaret Mead
• “We won’t have a society if we destroy
the environment”. – Margaret Mead
• “It is horrifying that we have to fight our
own government to save the environment”.
– Ansel Adams
• “I think the environment should
be put in the category of our national
security. Defense of our resources is just
as important as defense abroad. Otherwise
what is there to defend”? – Robert Redford
• “Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you
may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no
harm will befall you”. – John Muir
• “Birds are indicators of the
environment. If they are in
trouble, we know we’ll soon
be in trouble”. – Roger Tory
Peterson
• “By polluting clear
water with slime you will never
find good drinking water”. –
Aeschylus
• “If we do not permit
the earth to produce beauty
and joy, it will in the end not
produce food, either”. – Joseph
Wood Krutch
• “They claim this
mother of ours, the Earth, for
their own use, and fence their
neighbors away from her, and
deface her with their buildings
and their refuse”. – Sitting
Bull
• “Harmony with land
is like harmony with a friend;
you cannot cherish his right
hand and chop off his left”. –
Aldo Leopold
• “You will die but the carbon will not;
its career does not end with you. It will
return to the soil, and there a plant may
take it up again in time, sending it once
more on a cycle of plant and animal life”.
-Jacob Bronowski
• “People blame their environment.
There is only one person to blame – and
only one – themselves”. – Robert Collier
• “I can find God in nature, in animals, in
birds and the environment”. – Pat Buckley
• “We must return to nature and nature’s
god”. – Luther Burbank
• “The only way forward, if we are going
to improve the quality of the environment,
is to get everybody involved”. – Richard
Rogers
• “Journey with me to a true commitment
to our environment. Journey with me to
the serenity of leaving to our children a
planet in equilibrium”. – Paul Tsongas
• “Environmental degradation,
overpopulation, refugees, narcotics,
terrorism, world crime movements, and
organized crime are worldwide problems
that don’t stop at a nation’s borders”. –
Warren Christopher
• “Earth provides enough to satisfy
every man’s needs, but not every man’s
greed”. – Mahatma Gandhi
• “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”. – Mahatma Gandhi
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