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BEST NATURE QUOTES

 

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

 

Going to the mountains is going home. John Muir

 

Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things. Lao Tzu

 

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. Isaac Newton

 

We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. Native American proverb

 

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir

 

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau

 

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. Henry David Thoreau

 

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. John Muir

 

And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul. John Muir

 

It was for the best, so Nature had no choice but to do it. Marcus Aurelius

 

Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. Chinese proverb

 

Choose only one master – nature. Rembrandt

 

Leave the road, take the trails. Pythagoras

 

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see. Albert Einstein

 

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. Emma Goldman

 

Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet. Brooke Hampton

 

Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known. Carl Sagan

 

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. Antoinette Brown Blackwell

 

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. Jacques-Yves Cousteau

 

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson

 

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. Rachel Carson

 

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. Linda Hogan

 

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy”. Sylvia Plath

 

There I feel that nothing can befall me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore

 

Normality is a paved road; it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow. Vincent van Gogh

 

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. D. H. Lawrence

 

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If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Rainer Maria Rilke

 

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they would live a lot differently. Unknown

 

And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? Vincent van Gogh

 

Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. Standing Bear

 

WHAT IS NATURE?

 

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Nature is the art of God. Dante Alghieri

 

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful. Edward Abbey

 

Nature is cheaper than therapy. Unknown

 

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Blaise Pascal

 

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Terence McKenna

 

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. Henry David Thoreau

 

Nature is not human hearted. Lao Tzu

 

Nature is our mother. Latin proverb

 

Nature is the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations. Google

 

Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe. Wikipedia

 

FAMOUS NATURE QUOTES 

 

The earth has music for those who listen. William Shakespeare

 

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. William Shakespeare

 

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

 

I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax. Richard Feynman

 

Look into nature, and then you will understand it better. Albert Einstein

 

How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures? Walt Disney

 

Nature is not an engineer or a contractor, and I myself am a part of Nature. Albert Einstein (On whether his life was a success or failure)

 

All things in nature occur mathematically. René Descartes

 

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu

 

RALPH WALDO EMERSON NATURE QUOTES

 

The earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Nature is loved by what is best in us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

JOHN MUIR NATURE QUOTES

 

The mountains are calling and I must go. John Muir

 

I never saw a discontented tree. John Muir

 

Most people are on the world, not in it. John Muir

 

Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing. John Muir

 

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. John Muir

 

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir

 

The sun shines not on us but in us. John Muir

 

HENRY DAVID THOREAU NATURE QUOTES

 

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau

 

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. Henry David Thoreau

 

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

 

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau

 

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. Henry David Thoreau

 

SHORT NATURE QUOTES

 

Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle

 

The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats

 

Nature, to be controlled, must be obeyed. Francis Bacon

 

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. Gary Snyder

 

The world is always in movement. V. S. Naipaul

 

An inflexible tree breaks in a storm. Matshona Dhliwayo

 

The earth is what we all have in common. Wendell Berry

 

Colors are the smiles of nature. Leigh Hunt

 

Be kind to everything that lives. Unknown

 

There is beauty in simplicity. Unknown

 

I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are. Unknown

 

All good things are wild and free. Henry David Thoreau

 

Go where you feel most alive. Unknown

 

The best views comes after the hardest climb. Unknown

 

It is in the still silence of nature where one will find true bliss. Unknown

 

Not all classrooms have four walls. Unknown

 

Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing. Unknown

 

Beautiful things don’t ask for attention. Unknown

 

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno

 

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. Theodore Roethke

 

The earth has its music for those who will listen. George Santanaya

 

Butterflies are self-propelled flowers. Robert A. Heinlein

 

Nature rarely surrenders one of her magnificent secrets. Albert Einstein

 

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. Antoni Gaudi

 

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. Jack Kerouac

 

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. James Russell Lowell

 

Wildness is the preservation of the world. Henry David Thoreau

 

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

 

Men argue. Nature acts. Voltaire

 

INSPIRATIONAL NATURE QUOTES

 

Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world. John Muir

 

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Marie Curie

 

Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. Haruki Murakami

 

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman

 

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. John Muir

 

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news. John Muir

 

It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless. Riccardo Bozzi

 

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs

 

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent van Gogh

 

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey

 

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned. Cormac McCarthy

 

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein

 

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. Henry David Thoreau

 

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. John Steinbeck

 

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. Brian Jacques

 

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. Susan Polis Schutz

 

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. John Lennon

 

The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream. Jack Kerouac

 

I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. Jack Kerouac

 

We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it. Wendell Berry

 

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. Charlotte Eriksson

 

Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy. Charlotte Eriksson

 

There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it. Charlotte Eriksson

 

The butterfly counts not months but moments; and has time enough. Rabindranith Tagore

 

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. Gerard De Nerval

 

FUNNY NATURE QUOTES

 

The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain

 

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. Mark Twain

 

Architects cannot teach nature anything. Mark Twain

 

In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. Mark Twain

 

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so heroic. George Carlin

 

I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice. Alice Walker

 

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. Joseph Wood Krutch

 

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. Iris Murdoch

 

I love nature, I just don’t want to get any of it on me. Woody Allen

 

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. Roger Miller

 

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. Hal Borland

 

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles. Edward Abbey

 

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway. Maya Angelou

 

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. Helen Keller

 

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees. Leo Tolstoy

 

On every stem, on every leaf… and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature. Björk

 

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. Michael Pollan

 

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

 

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. Mary Oliver

 

It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Daniel Quinn

 

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature’s coffee. Scott Westerfeld

 

I was determined to know beans. Henry David Thoreau

 

A flower is an educated weed. Luther Burbank

 

EMOTIONAL NATURE QUOTES

 

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. John Muir

 

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost

 

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. Blaise Pascal

 

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. Albert Einstein

 

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi

 

We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. Henry David Thoreau

 

There is an element of truth in everything. Nature teaches, although it can sometimes be misleading. Bruce Lee

 

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. John Burroughs

 

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity. John Muir

 

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping. Hubert Reeves

 

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. Gretel Ehrlich

 

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E.B. White

 

Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. May Sarton

 

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. Thomas Henry Huxley

 

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Jack Kerouac

 

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell

 

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. Edward Abbey

 

Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments – there are consequences. Robert G. Ingersoll

 

Adapt or perish, now as never, is nature’s inexorable imperative. H.G. Wells

 

If people think that nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy. Kurt Vonnegut

 

Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal. John Muir

 

WISE NATURE QUOTES

 

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. Juvenal

 

Nature’s law is stronger than any little law you have made for yourself. Frank A. De Puy

 

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry van Dyke

 

Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another. Edmund Burke

 

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau

 

The day has eyes; the night has ears. David Fergusson

 

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of this childhood. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. Max Planck

 

My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God’s lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature. Henry David Thoreau

 

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson

 

The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. Henry Miller

 

The first wildflower of the year is like land after sea. Thomas Wentworth Higginson

 

QUOTES ABOUT NATURE’S BEAUTY, ENJOYING NATURE, EXPLORATION AND APPRECIATION

 

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. William Wordsworth

 

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman

 

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. David Attenborough

 

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life. John Burroughs

 

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. Rachel Carson

 

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. Claude Monet

 

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind. Amit Ray

 

Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude. Louie Schwartzberg

 

Some of nature’s most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake. Rachel Carson

 

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked – as I am surprisingly often – why I bother to get up in the mornings. Richard Dawkins

 

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. Jane Austen

 

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift. Albert Einstein

 

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details. Natalie Angier

 

After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. Henri Poincaré

 

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. Buddha

 

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird. David Attenborough

 

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. William Blake

 

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. George Santanaya

 

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. John Muir

 

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle

 

QUOTES ABOUT BEING AT ONE WITH NATURE, CONNECTION AND IMPORTANCE OF NATURE

 

I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. Anne Frank

 

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. Charles Darwin

 

The forest makes your heart gentle. You become one with it. No place for greed or anger there. Pha Pachak

 

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock

 

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. Henry David Thoreau

 

Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely. Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature. Jeb Dickerson

 

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body. Carol P. Christ

 

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. John Muir

 

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

 

One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books. John Muir

 

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes — every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Orison Swett Marden

 

Standing on the bare ground – my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space – all mean egotism vanishes. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. Joseph Addison

 

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

 

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. Walt Whitman

 

QUOTES ABOUT MOTHER NATURE

 

If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you. Alex Trebek

 

To me, Mother Nature isn’t nearly as scary as human nature. Paula Stokes

 

Nature is not benevolent: with ruthless indifference she makes all things serve their purposes. Lao Tzu

 

Sometimes Mother Nature has the answers when you do not even know the questions. Keith Wynn

 

As a scientist, I believe that nature is a perfect structure, seen from the standpoint of reason and logical analysis. Albert Einstein

 

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mold myself? Henry David Thoreau

 

Mother Nature presents neither a wrinkled face nor tottering form, but constantly renews the bloom of her youth, while time fills up the volumes of her history. James Lendall Basford

 

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job. Greg Peterson

 

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. Rachel Carson

 

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates

 

QUOTES ABOUT HUMAN NATURE

 

One’s true nature is revealed in time of difficulty. Chinese proverb

 

Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never. Chinese proverb

 

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. German proverb

 

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything – except his own nature. Henry Miller

 

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it. Criss Jami

 

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. Gretel Ehrlich

 

It’s very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. Albert Hofmann

 

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. Marcus Aurelius

 

Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer. John Keats

 

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. Edward Abbey

 

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. Henri Matisse

 

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Frankenstein)

 

A nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle

 

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. William Hazlitt

 

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. William Hazlitt

 

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. Unknown

 

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. Graham Greene

 

QUOTES ABOUT NATURE AND LOVE

 

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. Vincent Van Gogh

 

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. Frank Lloyd Wright

 

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. Sitting Bull

 

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth

 

I have loved the feel of the grass under my feet, and the sound of the running streams by my side. The hum of the wind in the tree-tops has always been good music to me, and the face of the fields has often comforted me more than the faces of men. John Burroughs

 

He that plants trees love others besides himself. Thomas Fuller

 

Explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Edward Abbey

 

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. Jimmy Carter

 

But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come. Jack London

 

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. Oscar Wilde

 

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. George Gordon Byron

 

Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment within. Chinese proverb

 

No man fears what he has seen grow. African Proverb

 

QUOTES ABOUT NATURE, HAPPINESS AND LIFE

 

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. Wilson

 

It takes time for a fruit to mature and acquire sweetness and become eatable; time is a prime factor for most good fortunes. Atharva Veda

 

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs

 

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor – such is my idea of happiness. Leo Tolstoy

 

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. John Muir

 

One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else. John Muir

 

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. John Burroughs

 

Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. William Wordsworth

 

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim

 

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. Benjamin Disraeli

 

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake

 

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. David Attenborough

 

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. Anne Frank

 

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. Steve Maraboli

 

I am comforted by life’s stability, by earth’s unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. Pearl S. Buck

 

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. Pearl S. Buck

 

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race. Wendell Berry

 

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver

 

If you have a garden and library, you have everything you need. Cicero

 

QUOTES ABOUT NATURE AND CHILDREN

 

Every child is born a naturalist. Their eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life. R. Search

 

If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it. Matshona Dhliwayo

 

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

 

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. Henry Morton Stanley

 

SPRING QUOTES

 

Spring is the time of plans and projects. Leo Tolstoy

 

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. Pablo Neruda

 

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. Pablo Neruda

 

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. Samuel Johnson

 

If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring. Victor Hugo

 

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens

 

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! Mark Twain

 

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. Rainer Maria Rilke

 

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. Margaret Atwood

 

SUMMER QUOTES

 

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. John Steinbeck

 

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James

 

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. Aristotle

 

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones)

 

AUTUMN QUOTES

 

Days decrease – and autumn grows, autumn in everything. Robert Browning

 

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. John Donne

 

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. George Eliot

 

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? Dodie Smith

 

Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. Robert Browning

 

Autumn’s the mellow time. William Allingham

 

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. Samuel Butler

 

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus

 

WINTER QUOTES

 

Winter is coming. George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones)

 

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night. Virginia Woolf

 

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. Edith Sitwell

 

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. Jack London

 

Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake. Sara Raasch

 

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again’. Lewis Carroll

 

Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance. Yoko Ono

 

If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

Will you love me in December as you do in May? Jack Kerouac

 

QUOTES ABOUT NATURE, SPIRITUALITY, PEACE, BIBLE AND GOD

 

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth. Edward Abbey

 

I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God. Alan Hovhaness

 

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. Albert Einstein

 

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions. Albert Einstein

 

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Albert Einstein

 

Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious. Albert Einstein

 

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa

 

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. Unknown

 

Something of God… flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself. C. S. Lewis

 

While we are actually subjected to them, the ‘moods’ and ‘spirits’ of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, ‘Look. Listen. Attend’. C. S. Lewis

 

In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctify reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousands years. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. George Washington Carver

 

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

 

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. Even so, God cannot save them from fools. John Muir

 

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. George Washington Carver

 

Nature is my manifestation of God. Unknown

 

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Ward Beecher

 

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. Anne Frank

 

Every dewdrop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. E.E. Cummings

 

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. Henry David Thoreau

 

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. Jules Renard

 

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. Frank Lloyd Wright

 

QUOTES ABOUT DIVINE NATURE: SUN, SUNSET, SUNRISE, SKY AND STARS

 

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

 

Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars. Jack Kerouac

 

There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them. Jo Walton

 

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. John Muir

 

The stars awaken a certain reverence because though always present they are inaccessible. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second. Mattie Stepanek

 

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. John Burroughs

 

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. George R.R. Martin

 

To speak truly, few adults can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. Bernard Williams

 

Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you’ll find it there. Robb Sagendorph

 

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. Sonia Gandhi

 

I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars. Stephenie Meyer

 

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare

 

Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

 

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don’t want to miss any of them. Suzanne Collins

 

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. Bob Dylan

 

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

 

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant

 

The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Galilei

 

Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under! C. JoyBell C.

 

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. Henry Ward Beecher

 

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt

 

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh

 

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. Unknown

 

Rainbows apologize for angry skies. Sylvia Voirol

 

QUOTES ABOUT ELEMENTS OF NATURE: WATER, SEA, OCEANS, RAIN, FIRE, WIND, FOREST, TREES AND MOUNTAINS

 

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir

 

Water is the driving force in nature. Leonardo da Vinci

 

The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day. Kenneth Patton

 

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

 

Our forests are literally the lungs for the planet. Unknown

 

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn. John Muir

 

A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it’s the plains. I guess it’s the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away. Georgia O’Keeffe

 

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action. John Muir

 

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock

 

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran

 

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. Chad Sugg

 

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. Madeleine L’Engle

 

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha

 

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore

 

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. Chinese proverb

 

A flower you plant may not necessarily bloom; but the seed of a tree you happen to drop may grow into a forest. Chinese proverb

 

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. Seneca

 

Even for a tree of 10000 feet, it’s leaves return to the root when they fall. Chinese proverb

 

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human. Maggie Stiefvater

 

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjold

 

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. Alice Walker

 

The stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. Haruki Murakami

 

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others. John Muir

 

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. Henry Beston

 

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike

 

The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. Jacques-Yves Cousteau

 

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t. Christopher Paolini

 

The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels. L.M. Montgomery

 

The most tangible of all visible mysteries – fire. Leigh Hunt

 

Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all. William Shakespeare

 

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. Cormac McCarthy

 

QUOTES ABOUT SAVING NATURE, CONSERVATION, ENVIRONMENT, PLANET EARTH AND RESPECTING NATURE

 

Earth was created for all of us, not some of us. Anthony Douglas Williams

 

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies. John Marsden

 

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

 

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility. Audrey Hepburn

 

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. Andy Warhol

 

For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death. Tom McMillan

 

We have met the enemy, and he is us. Walt Kelly

 

But man is a part of nature and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. Rachel Carson

 

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Rachel Carson

 

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective. Rachel Carson

 

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’. Rachel Carson

 

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. Rachel Carson

 

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. Rachel Carson

 

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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he’s been given. But up to now he hasn’t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life’s become extinct, the climate’s ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. Anton Chekhov

 

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. Edward Abbey

 

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively, instead of skeptically and dictatorially. E.B. White

 

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. Ralph Nader

 

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. Barry Commoner

 

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

 

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey

 

It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. Edward Abbey

 

A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself. Edward Abbey

 

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? David Attenborough

 

The environment is all we have. A healthy environment means a good life. Nadège

 

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. John Burroughs

 

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species – man – acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. Rachel Carson

 

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

 

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more. Gaylord Nelson

 

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. Jacques Yves Cousteau

 

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. Dalai Lama

 

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures. Dalai Lama

 

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do. Michel de Montaigne

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