Good quotes about Nature: Some of the best great quotes about Nature

Good quotes about Nature: Some of the best great quotes about Nature

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! – Edward Abbey

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. – Diane Ackerman

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. – Diane Ackerman

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. – Ansel Adams

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. – Ansel Adams

I am two with nature. – Woody Allen

Just living is not enough… One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. – Hans Christian Anderson

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

Nature does nothing uselessly. – Aristotle

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way. – Aristotle

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

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. – Francis Bacon

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. – Russell Baker

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. – Saint Basil

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. – Henry Ward Beecher

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. – Eric Berne

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. – Wendell Berry

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. – Wendell Berry

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a other must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment’s anxiety, and was never a child. – Erma Bombeck

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren’t dying. They’re merging into big conglomerates. – Erma Bombeck

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. – Hal Borland

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

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else. – Hal Boyle

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. – Rupert Brooke

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. – Pam Brown

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. – Thomas Browne

The groves were God’s first temples. – William C. Bryant

Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep. – William C. Bryant

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

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

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

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. – Leo Buscaglia

A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg. – Samuel Butler

Winter is nature’s way of saying, “Up yours.” – Robert Byrne

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 roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more. – Lord Byron

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus

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

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie

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

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 like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. – Willa Cather

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. – William Ellery Channing

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

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill

Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you somebody who has never achieved much. – Joan Collins

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. – Cyril Connolly

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that… I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. – Abraham Crowley

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 world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. – e. e. cummings

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. – Don DeLillo

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! – Emily Dickinson

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. – Annie Dillard

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

Use what talent you possess – the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. – Henry Van Dyke

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

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. – Henry Ellis

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

In your standard-issue family – of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based – there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones. – Delia Ephron

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. – John Fowles

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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 remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. – Hamlin Garland

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy. – Hamlin Garland

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. – Hamlin Garland

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. – David Gerrold

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

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. – Jean Giraudoux

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. – George Gissing

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. – Vincent Van Gogh

A mistake is simply another way of doing things. – Katharine Graham

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

I don’t mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it’s got my name on it. – Debbie Harry

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

Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while. – Kin Hubbard

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. – Langston Hughes

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. – Langston Hughes

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. – Robert Green Ingersoll

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. – P. D. James

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. – Ernest Jones

The poetry of the earth is never dead. – John Keats

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

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? – Rose Kennedy

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future. – John F. Kennedy

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. – Joyce Kilmer

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. – Virgil A. Kraft

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. – Doug Larson

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

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. – David Letterman

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. – Abraham Lincoln

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? – Charles Lindbergh

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. – Charles Lindbergh

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow’s happiness grow. – Margaret Lindsey

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