Nature Quotes: A bard here dwelt, fatter than bard becomes Who void of envy, guile, and the lust of gain, On virtue still and nature’s pleasing themes, Poured forth his unpremeditated strain.
Nature is a source of endless inspiration for artists, poets, and writers. It has been celebrated in song, verse, and prose for centuries. Nature quotes offer us a glimpse into the beauty, wonder, and power of the natural world. They can also provide us with comfort, inspiration, and guidance.
The Benefits of Spending Time in Nature
- Reduce stress levels
- Improve mood
- Boost the immune system
- Lower blood pressure
- Improve sleep quality
- Increase creativity
- Promote relaxation and mindfulness
Nature Quotes
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space…Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. – Albert Einstein
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman
A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye: looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. – Henry David Thoreau
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 having 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
A short horse is soon curried. – John Heywood
A walk in nature walks the soul back home. – Mary Davis
Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All Nature wears one universal grin. -HENRY FIELDING
All good things are wild and free. — Henry David Thoreau
All our wisdom is stored in the trees. – Santosh Kalwar
All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness, and flesh. – JENNETTE LEE
All things in nature occur mathematically. – René Descartes
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us. – STEPHEN KING
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. – Henry David Thoreau
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. – William Shakespeare
And tulips, children love to stretch Their fingers down, to feel in each Its beauty’s secret nearer. -Elizabeth Browning
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. – CHARLES W. CHESNUTT
As you sit on the hillside or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. – Stephen Graham
At some point in life, the world’s beauty becomes enough. – Toni Morrison
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But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. – William Blake
By discovering nature, you discover yourself. – Maxime Lagacé
Children are born with a sense of wonder and an affinity for nature. Properly cultivated, these values can mature into ecological literacy, and eventually into sustainable patterns of living. – Zenobia Barlow
Children more than ever, need opportunities to be in their bodies in the world – jumping rope, bicycling, stream hopping and fort building. It’s this engagement between limbs of the body and bones of the earth where true balance and centeredness emerge. – David Sobel
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 off like autumn leaves. – John Muir
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. — William Wordsworth
Come to the woods for here is rest. – John Muir
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. – Theodore Roethke
Deny yourself the connection to the wild places that your soul craves and the fire inside you will slowly turn to ash. – Creek Stewart
Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’is right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us. – Brian Jacques
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
Encourage your child to have muddy, grassy, or sandy feet by the end of each day, that’s the childhood they deserve. – Penny Whitehouse
Relationship Quotes And Saying
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn’t affect the entire forest. – Chen Shui-bian
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. – Gerard De Nerval
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in Nature suggests the infinite. – Henry James Slack
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs, as well as a tree, does. – George Bernard Shaw
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man, they join to some mysterious use. – Alexander Pope
Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. – Lauren DeStefano
Flowers are like human beings. they thrive on a little kindness. – Fred Streeter
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and winds long to play with your hair. – Kahlil Gibran
Go into the wilderness. There you will find your own revelations. – Roxana Jones
Going out into nature was one outlet that I had, which truly allowed me to calm down and not think or worry. – Richard Louv
Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed… if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. – James Russell Lowell
Green is the prime color of the world and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
He is the richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. – Socrates
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars. —Jack London
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. – Henry David Thoreau
Hiking is the best workout! You can hike for three hours and not even realize you’re working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself. – Jamie Luner
Hills are always more beautiful than stone buildings. – Walking Buffalo
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! – Emily Dickinson
I am glad I will not be young in the future without wilderness. ― Aldo Leopold
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. – Walt Whitman
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. – Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. – Henry David Thoreau
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful — an endless prospect of magic and wonder. – Ansel Adams
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds, and in the environment. – Pat Buckley
I declare this world is so beautiful, that I can hardly believe it exists! – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. – Pete Hamill
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
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop. – Willie Stargell
I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs
I had an inheritance from my father, it was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, the spending of it’s never done. — Ernest Hemingway
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming ‘War Horse’ on Dartmoor. – Steven Spielberg
I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if a war of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathize with the bears. – John Muir
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience, and to respect the fury of nature. – Paulo Coelho
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic. ― George Carlin
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. – William Shakespeare
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
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In the wilderness, I sense the miracle of life, and behind it, our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. — Charles A. Lindbergh
I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice. – Alice Walker
I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s; she’s never going to let us relax. – Richard Feynman
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. – Henry David Thoreau
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony. – Gustave Flaubert
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
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. – Napoleon Bonaparte
If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human. – Maggie Stiefvater
If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. – Henri Poincaré
If one way is better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way. – Aristotle
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently. – Bill Watterson
If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in my walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat. – Vijali Hamilton
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture. – Henry Beston
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. – Rainer Maria Rilke
If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you. – Alex Trebek
If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much. – Mary Oliver
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. – Vincent Van Gogh
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. – Buddha
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous. – Aristotle
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks. – John Muir
real nature quotes
In nature there are neither rewards or punishments – there are consequences. – Robert Green Ingersoll
In nature, light creates color. In the picture, color creates light. – Hans Hofmann
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. – Alice Walker
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. – Mark Twain
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. – Margaret Atwood
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, – no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. -John Milton
Encouragement Quotes And Saying
Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’. It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth. —Frances Hodgson Burnett
It is in man’s heart that the life of nature’s spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. – Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed. – Art Wolfe
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. – Frederick Douglass
It is vital that when educating our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts by nurturing their compassionate nature. – Dalai Lama
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. – Oscar Wilde
It was for the best, so Nature had no choice but to do it. – Marcus Aurelius
It’s hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself. – Steve Maraboli
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. – Emma Goldman
I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God. – Alan Hovhaness
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift. – Albert Einstein
Just being surrounded by bountiful nature, rejuvenates and inspires us. – EO Wilson
Just living is not enough one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. – Hans Christian Andersen
Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. – John Muir
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. — Hal Borland
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. – Anton Chekhov
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Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire, and some peace and quiet. – Brooke Hampton
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. – Robert Delaunay
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
Live in each season as it passes; breathes the air, drinks the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. – Henry David Thoreau
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein
Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purifying the mind. ― Amit Ray
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. – Paul Berg
Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things. – Lao Tzu
Man is Nature’s sole mistake. – W.S. Gilbert
Man is not himself only. He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources. He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys. – Mary Austin
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
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
Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can’t get away from it. – Christopher Heyerdahl
Mother Nature looks after those that can’t look after themselves. – Anthony T. Hincks
Mother Nature made continents. Human beings made countries. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Mother Nature speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. – Radhanath Swami
Simple Nature Quotes
Multitudes of people are beauty-blind to the outdoor pictures. I doubt if one in a hundred begins to take in the beauty visible on even a short walk in a city or country. – Delia Lyman Porter
My profession is to always find God in nature. – Henry David Thoreau
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. – Lao Tzu
Nature does nothing uselessly. – Aristotle
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. – Charles Dickens
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty. – Richard Feynman
Nature has the wonderful power of putting things right if allowed free play. – JAMES PLATT
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson
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
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction. — E. O. Wilson
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. – Blaise Pascal
Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. – WILLIAM COWPER
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in inexperience. – Leonardo Da Vinci
Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful. – Edward Abbey
Nature is just enough, but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. – Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. – Alfred Billings Street
Nature is not a place to visit. It is at home. – Gary Snyder
Nature is not an engineer or a contractor, and I myself am a part of Nature. – Albert Einstein
Nature is not human-hearted. – Lao Tzu
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves to be cherished and explored. – Terence Mckenna
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. – John Ruskin
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. – Isaac Newton
Nature is the art of God. – Dante Alghieri
Nature itself is the best physician. – Hippocrates
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ― Mark Twain
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. – William Wordsworth
Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little she achieves her work. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. – Henry David Thoreau
Nature, with its fragile yet resilient magnificence, models for us what aliveness means and reminds us that we are mortal. – MARIA POPOVA
Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude. – Louie Schwartzberg
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down today. Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost
Nature’s law is stronger than any little law you have made for yourself. – Frank A. De Puy
Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and the law of nature. – LEONARDO DA VINCI
Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another. – EDMUND BURKE
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. ― John Donne
Normality is a paved road; it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow. – Vincent van Gogh
Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. — Haruki Murakami
Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful. — Alfred Tennyson
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. – Antoni Gaudi
Of what I call God, and fools call nature. – Robert Browning
On earth, there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. – Jules Renard
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow…In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. – Cormac McCarthy
One forgets that there are environments that do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence. – Robert MacFarlane
One of the things that people don’t realize is that natural beauty, those recreational forests, have an economic development impact on the state as well. – Ed Rendell
One swallow never makes a summer. – John Heywood
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. – William Shakespeare
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. – ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. – Theodore Roethke
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. – Wallace Stevens
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
Playing together in nature is as much about us as it is about the child. Children get to celebrate and be themselves, while we are reminded of our inner child – the essence of who we are. – Nicolette Sowder
Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. – William Wordsworth
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known. – Carl Sagan
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
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
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. – Roger Miller
Sometimes Mother Nature has the answers when you do not even know the questions. – Keith Wynn
Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party! – Robin Williams
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Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. – Doug Larson
Stop every now and then. Just stop and enjoy it. Take a deep breath. Relax and take in the abundance of life. – Anonymous
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second. – Mattie Stepanek
Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness. – Jimmie Davis
Sunshine is delicious; rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – John Ruskin
Take a quiet walk with mother nature. It will nurture your mind, body, and soul. – A.D. Williams
Taking about pollution, nobody’s holy. They who pollute, sinned against nature. – Toba Beta
Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives. – Thomas Berry
That’s the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. – Miguel de Cervantes
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
The beauty of the natural world lies in the details. – Natalie Angier
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God. – Anne Frank
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. ― John Muir
The contemplation of nature can free one of the egos – the great troublemaker. – Eckhart Tolle
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. Wallace Stevens
The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we’re not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls. –Gloria Reuben
The earth has music for those who listen. — George Santayana
The earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. – D. H. Lawrence
The forest makes your heart gentle. You become one with it. No place for greed or anger there. — Pha Pachak
The garden is where you take the time in your life to tune in and listen. It just takes being still long enough, opening your heart, opening your spirit up to what the plants have to tell you. – Gabriel Howarth
Cute Nature Quotes
The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another, but they are so distant, so very far apart, that they cannot feel the warmth of each other, even though they are made of burning. — Beth Revis
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. – Zeno
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. – Joseph Campbell
The good man is the friend of all living things. – Mahatma Gandhi
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. – Edward Abbey
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books. – THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. – Blaise Pascal
The more civilized man becomes, the more he needs and craves a great background of forest wildness, to which he may return like a contrite prodigal from the husks of artificial life. — Ellen Burns Sherman
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
The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see. – Albert Einstein
The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir
The nature of women is closely allied to art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The poetry of earth is never dead. – John Keats
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 richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. – Claude Monet
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 search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur. – Aristotle
The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it. – Ted Trueblood
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. – Pamela Hansford Johnson
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth if thou kisses not me? – Percy Bysshe Shelley
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of the outer ocean on a beach. – Henry Beston
The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me, older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. — Robinson Jeffers
The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: the weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; the wind would sweep away obtuse padding. – GRETEL EHRLICH
The waters of the stream played the part of the orchestra, and the sunlight provided the dancers. Every now and then a crescendo of wind highlighted the symphony in the clearing by the creek. – EDWARD MOONEY JR.
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes. – George Sand
The whole world is an art gallery when you’re mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they’re free. – Charles Tart
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. – Robert Frost
There are always flowers for those who want to see them. – Henri Matisse
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.- CALVIN COOLIDGE
There is no better designer than nature. – Alexander McQueen
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. – John Steinbeck
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is a society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not to Man the less, but Nature more. – Lord Byron
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’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away. – Sarah Kay
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs. — Anton Chekhov
Short Nature Quotes
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
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. – Rachel Carson
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. ― Kurt Vonnegut
Time spent on trees is never time wasted. – Katrina Mayer
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. -Wendell Berry
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for anyone man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of anything. – Isaac Newton
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi
To me, Mother Nature isn’t nearly as scary as human nature. – Paula Stokes
To me, a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. – Helen Keller
To raise a nature-bonded child is to raise a rebel, a dreamer, an innovator… someone who will walk their own verdant, winding path. – Nicolette Sowder
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment. – Jane Austen
To the artist, there is never anything ugly in nature. – Auguste Rodin
Trees are always a relief, after people. – David Mitchell
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. — Rabindranath Tagore
Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings, we read ancient weather—storms, sunlight, and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history, which each tree remembers even after it has been felled. – Anne Michaels
Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature. – Gordon B. Hinckley
Walk in nature and feel the healing power of the trees. – Anthony William
We cannot command nature except by obeying her. – FRANCIS BACON
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. — William Hazlitt
We do not undertake to quarrel with the laws of nature. Our ignorance oftentimes puts us in opposition to them, and a very expensive position we find it to be, because they never yield, and in the end, of course, we must. – HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS
We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. – Native American proverb
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies. ― John Marsden
We must teach our children to smell the earth, to taste the rain, to touch the wind, to see things grow, to hear the sunrise and nightfall – to care. – John Cleal
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
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. – A. A. Milne
What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder. – Oprah Winfrey
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself? – Michel Foucault
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! – Logan Pearsall Smith
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. – Victor Hugo
When we pay attention to nature’s music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony. – Hazrat Inayat Khan
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment within. – Chinese proverb
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. ― Louisa May Alcott
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. – Edward Abbey
Within nature lies the cure for humanity. – Anonymous
Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun! Mehmet Murat
You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable. – Deepak Chopra
You don’t have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it. – Annie Dillard
Conclusion
Nature quotes are a reminder of the beauty, wonder, and power of the natural world. They can also help us to connect with nature and reap the benefits of spending time in nature. If you are looking for a way to relax, de-stress, or boost your creativity, try reading or writing nature quotes. You may be surprised at how much they can help you.
FAQs About Nature Quotes
- Why are nature quotes so popular?
Nature quotes resonate with people because they capture the profound emotions and experiences that come from connecting with the natural world. - Who are some famous poets known for their nature-inspired verses?
Poets like William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost have left an indelible mark with their beautiful nature-centric poetry. - How can nature quote impact our mental well-being?
Nature quotes can have a positive effect on mental well-being by offering a sense of peace, perspective, and mindfulness. - Are there any modern authors who continue the tradition of writing nature quotes?
Yes, contemporary authors like Cheryl Strayed, Richard Powers, and Mary Oliver continue to infuse their works with the magic of nature. - Where can I find more nature quotes to uplift my spirits?
For a dose of nature-inspired wisdom, you can explore books, websites dedicated to quotes, and social media platforms where enthusiasts share their favorite excerpts.