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6 days ago
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World Environment Day 2025: Inspiring Wishes, Quotes & Images To Share On June 5
Last Updated: Happy World Environment Day 2025: Share these inspiring wishes, quotes, images, and greetings to encourage everyone to protect and preserve the planet. World Environment Day 2025: Observed every year on June 5, World Environment Day is the largest global platform for environmental awareness and action. Celebrated by millions worldwide, it has been led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since its inception in 1973. Over the decades, it has grown into a powerful movement driving change through education and community participation. The Republic of Korea will host World Environment Day in 2025, with a focus on ending plastic waste globally. This year, World Environment Day joins the UNEP-led #BeatPlasticPollution campaign to encourage communities throughout the globe to adopt and promote solutions. This year's theme aims to highlight the harmful impact of plastic waste on ecosystems and to inspire collective action toward sustainable, long-term solutions. Whether you're a passionate environmentalist or just learning about sustainability, sharing quotes and well wishes can inspire others to care for the environment. Here's wishes and quotes that you can share with your family and friends. World Environment Day 2025: Wishes World Environment Day 2025: Quotes 'The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share." – Lady Bird Johnson 'If we surrendered to earth's intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees." – Rainer Maria Rilke 'The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth." – Marlee Matlin 'The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." – Robert Swan 'One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken." – Leo Tolstoy 'Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." – Albert Einstein World Environment Day – FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) What is World Environment Day? World Environment Day is the United Nations' principal platform to raise awareness and encourage action for the protection of the environment. When is World Environment Day celebrated? It is celebrated every year on June 5. Who organises World Environment Day? It is led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and supported by governments, organizations, and individuals globally. Why was June 5 chosen for this day? June 5 marks the opening day of the historic 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, which laid the foundation for modern environmental diplomacy. Why is World Environment Day important? It mobilizes millions around the world to take environmental action. It serves as a reminder that everyone has a role in building a greener, more sustainable future. How can individuals participate in World Environment Day? top videos View all How can schools and organisations get involved? They can organize eco-friendly activities like tree planting, awareness campaigns, art contests, recycling initiatives, or host guest speakers on environmental topics. About the Author Bhaswati Sengupta Bhaswati Sengupta is a Sub-Editor at News18, where she works closely with the Web Stories and Photo Gallery team to create visually engaging and impactful digital content. She also contributes to Lifestyle More The News18 Lifestyle section brings you the latest on health, fashion, travel, food, and culture — with wellness tips, celebrity style, travel inspiration, and recipes. Also Download the News18 App to stay updated! tags : lifestyle World Environment day Location : New Delhi, India, India First Published: June 05, 2025, 07:10 IST News lifestyle World Environment Day 2025: Inspiring Wishes, Quotes & Images To Share On June 5
New York Times
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
In These Poems Life Is a Party, Complete With Designer Drugs
In his seminal 'Letters to a Young Poet,' Rainer Maria Rilke encourages his long-distance apprentice to be as patient as possible with everything unsolved in his heart, to learn to love the questions themselves 'like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.' 'Do not now seek the answers,' he writes, 'which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.' Alex Dimitrov, in his unflinching fifth collection of poems, 'Ecstasy,' is for the most part proudly unconcerned with answers. 'I have nothing/to prove and nothing to teach you,' he writes in 'Alex, It Was Really Nothing,' 'and this poem is not going to solve/any crisis or pretend it knows anything/about anything.' Early in the collection, one speaker declares: 'There is no true self./No one gets to the bottom of anything.' Dimitrov, it would appear, is loath to try. Although his approach departs somewhat from Rilke's — the speaker in these poems may not always love the questions quite as much, or the patience they require — the basic message rings true: Stop worrying about figuring everything out, embrace the pain and unknowing, live in the present as best you can. To this end, and true to its title, there is no shortage of indulgence in 'Ecstasy.' The characters in these poems party hard; there is plenty of sex and drinking and drugs. They smoke Sobranies and down bottles of Chablis at Café Charlot in Paris. They are seasoned regulars of New York nightlife, bouncing from one downtown fixture to the next. One poem is titled 'Xanax'; another is called 'Poppers.' There's a full section with poems dedicated to each of the seven deadly sins. Dimitrov — who leans toward single stanzas broken into short lines and succinct, staccato sentences — doesn't hesitate to air a few grievances along the way. In 'Monday,' he writes: 'Doesn't it bother you sometimes/what living is, what the day has turned into?/So many screens and meetings/and things to be late for.' But overall, 'Ecstasy' reads more like celebration than critique, a reminder to enjoy the pleasures of the world wherever possible and not take ourselves, or life, too seriously. As in 'Love and Other Poems,' his previous collection, Dimitrov's man-about-town quality is on full display here, though the tone has shifted somewhat. The poems remain candid and conversational, but at times they also feel more disillusioned and resigned. 'Everything is a lie/but everything is still beautiful,' he writes in 'Wednesday,' which ends: 'I just love this running around/even if I'm not free.' But Dimitrov still comes across as the romantic he was in his earlier work, too, with a curiosity and thirst for connection and life's possibilities. In 'Tuesday' — an endearingly earnest meditation on love and selfhood 'meant to be read/at the bar on a Tuesday/when you're dehydrated/and not feeling so great' — he writes: The speaker admits that he imagined his life (and perhaps a past relationship) would have turned out differently, but the poem ultimately ends with an emphasis on all that is still possible: 'You can walk out/tonight and feel totally new./All you need is the right pair of boots.' 'Ecstasy' is a rollicking paean to pleasure, an ode to realness and resilience. These poems are raw and honest and deeply personal, and vibrate with the intimacy and electricity typically reserved for late-night conversations between old friends or new lovers after the third round. Hilarious in places and heartbreaking in others, they emerge from a place of inner turmoil and inner knowing, and do not apologize for anything. Dimitrov is keenly aware of the hardship and labor involved in living, how imperfect and lost we sometimes feel, but insists we learn to embrace this, to celebrate it unabashedly, to accept that the freedom possible in the present is far more sacred than most wisdom we can glean from the past. In this way, the sense of resignation and disillusionment that permeates the collection functions as a form of liberation and empowerment. And maybe, as it turns out, a kind of answer in itself: 'I'm just gonna do it my way,' he writes in the final lines of 'Thursday.' 'I'm gonna ignore the news and the fads/and the outrage because baby—/heart is mostly all I have./That and some fight on the side.'
