Thoughts of Nature Quotes in English Images

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

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

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

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

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 Quotation

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nature’s law is stronger than any little law you have made for yourself.

- A Quotation From Frank A. De Puy Download or Share

Nature is our mother.

- Latin proverb Download or Share

Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.

- Chinese proverb Download or Share

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

- Isaac Newton Download or Share

Nature is loved by what is best in us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Download or Share

Nature, to be controlled, must be obeyed.

- Francis Bacon Download or Share

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

- Lao Tzu Download or Share

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

- William Shakespeare Download or Share

Nature is not an engineer or a contractor, and I myself am a part of Nature.

- Albert Einstein Download or Share

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Download or Share

Nature rarely surrenders one of her magnificent secrets.

- Albert Einstein Download or Share

Nature is wont to hide herself.

- Heraclitus Download or Share

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

- Edward Abbey Download or Share

Nature does nothing uselessly.

- Aristotle Download or Share

Nature is wont to hide herself.

- Frank Lloyd Wright Download or Share

Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.

- Robert A. Heinlein Download or Share

Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.

- Standing Bear Download or Share

I believe in God, only I spell it nature.

- Frank Lloyd Wright Download or Share

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

- Henri Matisse

Adapt or perish, now as ever, in nature's inexorable imperative.

- H. G. Wells

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature’s coffee.

- Scott Westerfeld

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

- Antoni Gaudi

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

- Juvenal

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

- Gretel Ehrlich

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Jules Renard

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

- Zeno

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

- Marcus Aurelius

The earth has its music for those who will listen.

- George Santanaya

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

- Walt Whitman

The goal is to discover your nature and nature helps you do it.

- Maxime Lagacé

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

- Woody Allen

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

- Zeno

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

- John Muir

By discovering nature, you discover yourself.

- Maxime Lagace

Going to the mountains is going home.

- John Muir

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

- John Muir

Colors are the smiles of nature.

- Leigh Hunt

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

- Lao Tzu

An inflexible tree breaks in a storm.

- Matshona Dhliwayo

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Colors are the smiles of nature.

- Leigh Hunt

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

- Henry David Thoreau

The earth has music for those who listen.

- William Shakespeare

The mountains are calling and I must go.

- John Muir

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

- Marie Curie

I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

- Anne Frank

Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.

- John Keats

Man is by nature a political animal.

- Aristotle

Nature is cheaper than therapy.

- Unknown

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

- D. H. Lawrence

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

- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- D. H. Lawrence

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

- Bernard Williams

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Emma Goldman

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- George Washington Carver

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

- H.G. Wells

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Unknown

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

- Zeno

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

- James Russell Lowell

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

- Jane Austen

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

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Pha Pachak

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- James Oppenheim

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

- Gary Snyder

Choose only one master – nature.

- Rembrandt

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

- John Muir

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

- Carol P. Christ

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Claude Monet

Days decrease – and autumn grows, autumn in everything.

- Robert Browning

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

- John Steinbeck

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Keith Wynn

Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never.

- Chinese proverb

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

- Henry David Thoreau Download or Share

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth Download or Share

Nature is not human hearted.

- by Lao Tzu Download or Share

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

William Wordsworth

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh

Men argue. Nature acts.

Voltaire

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

- Marie Curie

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

George R.R. Martin

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

William Hazlitt

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

Aristotle

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.

- Beautiful by Mattie Stepanek

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

Jo Walton

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

Frank Lloyd Wright Download or Share

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

- by Bruce Lee Download or Share

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alghieri Download or Share

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

- by Blaise Pascal Download or Share

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

Marcus Aurelius Download or Share

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

- Roger Miller Download or Share

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

- Blaise Pascal

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

- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

- Terence McKenna

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 holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

- E. O. Wilson

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

- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Nature does nothing uselessly.

- Aristotle

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

- Jeb Dickerson

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

- Mark Twain

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

- Louie Schwartzberg

A flower is an educated weed.

Luther Burbank

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

Sitting Bull

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

- Lao Tzu

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

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Lao Tzu

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

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 *

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

- John Burroughs

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

- Jimmy Carter

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

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

- Michael Pollan

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

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

Henry Miller

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

- John Muir

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

- Albert Hofmann

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

-H. G. Wells

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

- William Hazlitt

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

- Rachel Carson

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

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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

- Jane Austen

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

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- John Muir

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

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them.  Life is a hungry thing.

- Scott Westerfeld

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Haruki Murakami

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

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

- Edmund Burke

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

- Robb Sagendorph

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, of permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

- Walt Whitman

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

- Gretel Ehrlich

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

- Unknown

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

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

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 are in nature neither rewards nor punishments – there are consequences.

- Robert G. Ingersoll

Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.

- Dogen

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

- Henry van Dyke

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

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

- Riccardo Bozzi

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

- Walt Whitman

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

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

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

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

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

- John Muir

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

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

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

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

All things in nature occur mathematically.

- Rene Descartes

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

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

- Rachel Carson

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

- Alan Hovhaness

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

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

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

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

- Aristotle

The sun shines not on us but in us.

- John Muir

The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

- Mark Twain

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

- David Attenborough

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

- Rachel Carson

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

- Richard Feynman

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

- John Muir

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

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

- John Muir

All good things are wild and free.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.

- Sara Raasch

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

- John Muir

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

- Gerard De Nerval

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

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

- John Muir

Leave the road, take the trails.

- Pythagoras

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

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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

- Cicero

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

- Jack London

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

The earth laughs in flowers.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

- Joseph Addison

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

- George Santanaya

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

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

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

- William Wordsworth

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.

- Nature Thought in English by Mother Teresa

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

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

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.

- Virginia Woolf

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

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 *

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

- Albert Camus

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

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

- John Muir

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

- William Blake

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

- Unknown

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

- Samuel Butler Quotation

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

- Henry Morton Stanley

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

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

- Leo Tolstoy

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

Autumn’s the mellow time.

- William Allingham

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

- John Burroughs

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

- Walt Whitman

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

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

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

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

- Pablo Neruda

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

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

- Alex Trebek

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

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

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

- Pablo Neruda

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

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

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

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

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

- Dodie Smith

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

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

- Paula Stokes

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

- Samuel Johnson

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

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

- Jane Austen

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

- Robert Browning

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

- George R.R. Martin

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

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

- Buddha

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

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

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

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

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

- Claude Monet

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Rachel Carson

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

- Nature Thought by John Donne

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

Every dewdrop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Socrates

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Chinese proverb

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

- German proverb

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

- Natalie Angier

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson