29 Unique Eco Quotes To Use As Environmental Captions for Instagram

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Are you looking for the perfect environmental caption for Instagram? These 53 unique eco quotes are just what you need to drive home your content this Earth Day! I’ve also included an easily downloadable list of these captions so you can access them at your convenience.

This post is all about eco quotes to use as environmental captions for Instagram!

Environmental Captions for Instagram

Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole. -Jane Fonda

We’ve got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough. -Jack Johnson

Climate change is real. It’s happening right now. -Leonardo Dicaprio

Let us not take this planet for granted. -Leonardo Dicaprio

I’m not gonna force anybody because I wouldn’t want them to force me. But that doesn’t mean I’m not gonna try to make the world a better place. -Billie Eilish

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come. -Greta Thunburg

I speak for the trees. -Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so. -Theodore Roosevelt

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem. -Wangari Maathai

In nature, nothing exists alone. -Rachel Carson

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. -John Muir

Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment. -Gaylord Nelson

We have a social problem. We have an education issue. And until we get that right, we can’t fix our ecological issues. -Kiss the Ground Documentary

We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife. -Steve Irwin

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved. -Jane Goodall

I need to be outside. I need to be in the world and to remember that I am of it. -John Green

But I am now about no waste; I am about thrift. -William Shakespeare

You weren’t created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution. -Mother Teresa

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. -George Washington Carver

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. -Jacques Yves Cousteau

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. -John Ruskin

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? -Henry David Thoreau

When Sun shines, it not only brightens our day; it enlightens us, our soul, cleansing it of the gloominess that the night’s darkness had brought in. -Tista Ray

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them. -Saint Francis De Sales