Nature Quotes
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. -Michel de Montaigne
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
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. -Gerard De Nerval
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.
-Alice Meynell
Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world. -Brenda Peterson
Our understandings are always liable to error Nature and certainty are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense. -Marcus Antonius
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -Francis Bacon
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. -W.H. Hudson
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. -Alan C. Kay
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 Bernhard Nobel
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. -John Berger
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet,
Long live the weeds and the wildness yet. -Gerard Manley Hopki
Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there. -Robb Sagendorph
You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things... -Walt Whitman
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. -William Blake
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
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good heavens, of what un costly 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
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. -Jane Austen
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home -
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.
-Emily Dickinson
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
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. -John Muir
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. -Walt Whitman
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. -Galileo Galilei
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
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. -Henry David Thoreau
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. -Steven Spielberg
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
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! -John Muir
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. -Chief Standing Bear
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
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
Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. -Toni Morrison
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. -George Washington Carver
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. -Gandhi
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. -John Burroughs
I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. -Emily Dickinson
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. -Rachel Carson
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
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. -Rachel Carson
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. -Rabindranath Tagore
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 Buck
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 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 Buck
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...
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
-John Muir
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
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -James Russell Lowell
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 is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
-George Santayana
The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I:
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
-Isaac Watts
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter? -Kotomichi
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
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. -Alan Hovhaness
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. -Claude Monet
The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
The brooks for the fishers of song;
To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
The streams and the woods belong.
-Sam Walter Foss
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. -Albert Einstein
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. -Aldo Leopold
A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
-Percy B Shelley
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home -
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.
-Emily Dickinson
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. -A. A. Milne Eeyore
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. -Albert Einstein
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. -Henry David Thoreau
Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. -John Muir
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. -Eleonora Duse
A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun. -Llewelyn Powys
I walked barefoot - the only way to walk on a muddy road. -Laurie Gough
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. -Morris K. Udall
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on so support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship. -Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. -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
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. -Miriam Makeba
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. -Elbert Hubbard
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. -John Heywood
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. -Frank Lloyd Wright
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -William Shakespeare
