100 quotes about nature

Nature quotes

1. “The earth has music for those who listen.” ~William Shakespeare
2. “We breathe air exhaled from trees whose leaves are made of starlight… Our veins echo the patterns of rivers, branches and root systems. We are not a part of nature. We are nature.” ~Marysia Miernowska
3. “Nature literally has the power to heal. By slowing down and letting yourself notice the smell, sound and feel of nature, you become present, aware and often experience less stress. You become unbusy.” ~Lettie Stratton
4. “No matter how old you get, may you always stop to fill your pockets with smooth stones, empty snail shells and other little treasures.” ~Nicolette Sowder
5. “Just living is not enough…one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” ~Hans Christian Anderson
6. “Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.” ~Vincent van Gogh
7. “Run with me where the wildflowers dream. Feel the pulse of what it is to be free.” ~Angie Weiland-Crosby
8. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” ~John Muir
9. “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright
10. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.’ ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “The forest spoke to my soul in a language I already knew; a distant lullaby from the womb of peace and solitude.” ~Angie Weiland-Crosby
12. “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” ~John Muir
13. “Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” ~Unknown
14. “Everyone needs a place to retreat; a sport where the world grows quiet enough for the soul to speak.” ~Angie Weiland-Crosby
15. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~Lao Tzu
16. “Mountains know secrets we need to learn. That it might take time, it might be hard, but if you just hold on long enough, you will find the strength to rise up.” ~Tyler Knott
17. “Meet me in the middle of your story when the soul is worn but wise.” ~Angie Weiland-Crosby
18. “It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.’ ~Brene Brown
19. “Less noise and more green.” ~Tolkien
20. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” ~Vincent van Gogh
21. “She lost herself in the trees among the ever-changing leaves. She wept beneath the wild sky as stars told stories of ancient times. The flowers grew towards her light, the river called her name at night. She could not live an ordinary life with the mysteries of the universe hidden in her eyes.” ~Christy Ann Martine
22. “I felt my longs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.'” ~Sylvia Plath
23. “Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.” ~Richard M. Nixon
24. “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” ~Rachel Carson
25. “Some years are about growing. This year is about blooming.” ~Lauren M. Garcia
26. “Let us live like flowers: wild and beautiful and drenched in sun.” ~Ellen Everett
27. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~Oscar Wilde
28. “We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.” ~Charlotte Mason
29. “Be patient with yourself. Nothing in nature blooms all year.”
30. “At some point in life, the world’s beauty becomes enough.” ~Toni Morrison
31. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “When you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine.”
33. “I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ~Vincent van Gogh
34. “The plants and the earth are resting. Maybe we should too. The long days will be here soon enough.” ~Rebecca Raiden
35. “There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” ~Jo Walton
36. “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” ~John Burroughs
37. “Climb the mountain, not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.” ~David McCullough Jr.
38. “No one who loves the woods stays on the path.” Millie Florence
39. “Leave the road, take the trails.” ~Pythagoras
40. “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. “A bird sitting in a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not in the branch but in her wings.” ~Unknown
42. “Pay attention to the things you are naturally drawn to. They are often connected to your path, passion and purpose in life. Have the courage to follow them.” ~Ruben Chavez
43. “May the petals teach me the art of letting go.” ~Xan Oku
44. “Meet me in the middle of your story when the soul is worn but wise.” ~Angie Weiland-Crosby
45. “Place your hands into soil to feel grounded. Wade in water to feel emotionally healed. Fill your lungs with fresh air to feel mentally clear. Raise your face to the heat of the sun and connect with that fire to feel your own immense power.” ~Victoria Erickson
46. “The grass is greener where you water it.”
47. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
48. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” ~John Muir

51. “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.” ~William Shakespeare
52. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” ~John Muir
53. “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
54. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” ~Margaret Atwood
55. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
56. “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
57. “If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.” ~Maggie Stiefvater
58. “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.” ~Aldo Leopold
59. “Not just beautiful, though–the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” ~Haruki Murakami
60. “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
61. “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
62. “We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.” ~John Muir
63. “Nature does nothing uselessly.” ~Aristotle
64. “Earth breathes in us.” ~Matthew Edward Hall
65. “Nature is the greatest school of business.” ~Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
66. “Imagine that nature is the single most important client in the architectural practice.” ~Neri Oxman
67. “Nature is infinitely patient, one thing lives after another has given way; the magnolia’s blooms die just as the cherry’s come to life.” ~Teju Cole
68. “People often have a romantic ideal of the forest, but if you sit under a tree, every insect within a ten-metre radius will make a beeline for you. It’s not romantic. It is, however, transformative. To feel its pulse, its rhythm, its life. To learn its ways, its regenerative power, its creative prowess.” ~Donna Goddard
69. “How long will it be before we see a different microplastic filled rainbow in the sky?” ~Anthony T. Hincks
70. “Without these provisions, we would struggle to accomplish our various tasks and to develop our communities, our nations and ourselves. The sun provides us with light and warmth, the sun and moon allow us to calculate time, the earth enables us to grow plants and trees, the sea allows us to travel.”  ~Aisha Utz
71. “We need to teach our children that each person must pay his or her rent for living on the planet, and that means demanding of our governments to make biodiversity conservation a priority.” ~Douglas Tompkins
72. “I had not watered my frangipani tree. I had not even watched it closely. Yet, the earth had revolved around the sun, the season had changed. The invisible but inevitable laws of nature had prevailed. The programming within my tree was functioning exactly as expected. Fall comes, but so does spring.” ~Ranjani Rao
73. “Without birds, where would we have learned that there can be song in the heart?” ~Hal Borland
74. “Things can be singularly difficult yet insanely beautiful for have you not seen the thick of dark, so eerily bleak, a windswept sky before it breaks into a dawn of gold…” ~Jayita Bhattacharjee
75. “I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared of trees, soils stripped of nature’s complexity…” ~Suzanne Simard
76. “What we call evil is the instability inherent in all mankind which drives man outside and beyond himself toward an unfathomable something, exactly as though Nature had bequeathed to our souls an ineradicable portion of instability from her store of ancient chaos.” ~Stefan Zweig
77. “I used always to be tired. When I dig I’m not tired at all. I like to smell the earth when it’s turned up […] There’s naught as nice as th’ smell o’ good clean earth, except th’ smell o’ fresh growin’ things when th’ rain falls on ’em.” ~Franches Hodgson Burnett
78. “Mountain treks had always been her favorite. In the mountains, everyone was on equal footing. The great peaks broke you, pushed you to the furthest of your mental and physical capabilities, empowered the worthy but exposed the weak.” ~Allyson S. Barkley
79. “The only creatures that powerful women worship are other powerful women. It’s a law of nature. You, my darling, are just like all the rest.” ~Allyson S. Barkley
80. “Respect nature, love it, connect and it will connect you to a good life.” ~Diondre Mompoint
81. “Living in the forest, I’ve learned this from trees: just grow.” ~ Darnell Lamont Walker
82. “The romance of a message in a bottle floating to new lands is not an ode to love but a stark reminder that borders are invisible lines drawn by humans and nature does not abide by them.” ~Kristy Hamilton
83. “Nature is an alchemist, gathering the last of summer’s green and turning it to gold.” ~Laura Jaworski
84. “The frozen flowers never go away. They hang around somewhere all the time.” ~Arundhati Roy
85. “Nature was supposed to do wonders for one’s mental health. Therapists actually prescribed time with nature to their patients.” ~Jayci Lee
86. “Your understanding of life will deepen as you spend more time in nature.” ~Shree Shambav
87. “In the morning, look out and let the landscape take up full residence in your heart before all is intervened by the sound of human voices.” ~Howard Norman
88. “I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be. Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o’-the-wisp to man.” ~Bram Stoker
89. “A flower and a snake can be poisonous!” ~Raigon Stanley
90. “Just as we cannot change our nature, we cannot change the destructive course of Nature.” ~H.C. Roberts
91. “Nature reveals the necessary.” ~Lailah Gifty Akita
92. “Have you had an experience in your life that touched you so much, you folded that memory and gently placed it in the pocket of your heart?” ~Ineta Love Wonder
93. “For me it was important to be alone; solitude was a prerequisite to being openly and joyfully susceptible and responsive to the world of leaves, light, birdsong, flowers, flowing water.” ~Mary Oliver
94. “I run no more; the winds dance me.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin
95. “The delicate fragrance of rose hips lingered on my fingers from tending the garden.” ~Meeta Ahluwalia
96. “Let us seek connection with nature, like the butterfly does, by nurturing our relationships with the world around us and finding solace in its wonders.” ~Lucia Matuonto
97. “Every nook and corner of nature is home to life. The Earth provides freely to all.” ~Meeta Ahluwalia
98. “Every law that arises from the pleasure or interest of someone, not from the structure of human and Nature, is illegal.” ~Jeyhun Aliyev Silo
99. “I looked at the pomegranate in my hand. How similar humanity was to pomegranates: one in sight, but a thousand arils in when you remove the peel. Though they are all a bit different from each other in shape and size, but all of them are pomegranate arils, and they live all together, in the same sphere.” ~Jeyhun Aliyev Silo
100. “Nature is the greatest teacher. It teaches us patience, humility, and respect for all living things.” ~Biju Karakkonam
101. “In the stillness of the transition, every creature takes a part, An ensemble of existence, beating with Earth’s endless heart.” ~Oscar Auliq-Ice

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