Nature Quotes

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."

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

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

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

"The earth has music for those who listen."

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles."

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit."

"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature."

"Earth is what we all have in common."

"The mountains are calling and I must go."

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people."

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

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

"The sun does not forget a village just because it is small."

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

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect."

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

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

"Water is the driving force of all nature."

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

"Sunshine is the best medicine."

"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."

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

"Nature is the art of God."

"Wildness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."

"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms."

"Spring is nature's way of saying let's party."

"The forest would be very silent if no bird sang there except those that sang best."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe."

"Stars are the scars of the universe."

"The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there."

"Going to the mountains is going home."

"Land really is the best art."

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."

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

"The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul."

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

"I never saw a discontented tree."

"The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth."

"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked."

"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude."

"All the colours I am inside have not been invented yet."

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct."

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves."

"I felt my soul expanding in the sunlight and then contracting in the cold."

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

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

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."

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

"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."

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

"Wild and free, these are the two best things."

"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."

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

"To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab."

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees."

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore."

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day is by no means a waste of time."

"A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly."

"The earth laughs in flowers."

"Choose only one master — Nature."

"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."

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