103 Nature Quotes

Continuing my quote resource stash, I wanted to put together a collection of my 103 favorite quotes about Nature.

Being someone who has been focusing more on her mindset and gratitude this year, it seems that becoming more in tune with nature has just been a…um…natural (sorry) thing for me to embrace. 

Consequently, I’ve spent more time adding nature-related things to my life, and quotes about it are easy additions. So here is a collection of my most favorite nature-related quotes.  I hope they’re helpful to you!

103 Nature Quotes

1. “Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purifying the mind. ” Amit Ray
2. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” –Alice Walker
3. “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves” – Mahatma Gandhi
4. “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” – Isaac Newton
5.  “Birds have always had the ability to bring me out of a dark space and provide relief in bad times.” – Jason Ward
6. “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
7.  “Being able to smell the fresh air and disconnect from the news and your phone—there’s nothing like it.” – Jason Ward
8. “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
9. “I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!” Richard Phillip Feynman
10. “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” —Khalil Gibran
11.  “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” —Albert Einstein
12.  “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” —Henry David Thoreau
13. “To me, a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” —Helen Keller
14.  “We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” —Native American proverb
15. “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
16.  “Choose only one master—nature.” —Rembrandt
17. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” —Lao Tzu
18.  “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” —Laura Ingalls Wilder
19. “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” —Rachel Carson
20. “Leave the road, take the trails.” —Pythagoras
21. “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
22.  “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” —John Burroughs
23. “It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. “—Robert Louis Stevenson
24.  “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
25. “There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.” —Charlotte Eriksson
26.  “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” —Mahatma Gandhi
27. “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” —Carl Sagan
28. “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
29. “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
30. “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.” —Emily Dickinson
31.  “Men argue. Nature acts.” —Voltaire
32. “All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. “—Marie Curie
33.  “Colors are the smiles of nature.” —Leigh Hunt
34. “Land really is the best art.” —Andy Warhol
35.  “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.” —Gretel Ehrlich
36.  “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
37.  “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’” —Robin Williams
39. “The earth has music for those who listen.” —William Shakespeare
40.  “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” —Henri Matisse
41.  “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” —Joseph Campbell
42.  “The Amen of nature is always a flower.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
43. “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
44.  “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. “A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.” —James Russell Lowell
46.  “The earth is what we all have in common.” —Wendell Berry
47.  “Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.” —Dogen
48.  “The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” —Blaise Pascal
49. “The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” —Zeno
50. “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” —Henry van Dyke
51. “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
52. “Nature is loved by what is best in us.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” —Winston Churchill
54.  “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” —Walt Whitman
55.  “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
56.  “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” —William Shakespeare
57.  “By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” —Maxime Lagacé
58. “Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.” —Katrina Mayer
59.  “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” —John Ruskin
60.  “Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another.” —Edmund Burke
61. “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.” —Rainer Maria Rilke
62. “The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” —D. H. Lawrence
63. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” —Rachel Carson
64. “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” —John Keats
65.  “I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.” —David Attenborough
66. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” —Aristotle
67. “The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” —Claude Monet
68. “The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” —William Wordsworth
69. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
70. “Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.” —Antoinette Brown Blackwell
71.  “I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax.” —Richard Feynman
72. “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” —Theodore Roethke
73. “Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” —Steve Maraboldi
74.  “Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.” —John Muir
75. “Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.” —Brooke Hampton
76.  “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
77. “Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” —Michel de Montaigne
78.  “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” —Gary Snyder
79.  “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
80.  “To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” —Jane Austen
81.  “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” —Walt Whitman
82. “Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.” —Louie Schwartzberg
83. “The earth laughs in flowers.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
84. “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
85. “Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.” —Amit Ray
86. “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” —Isaac Newton
87.  “Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.” —Blaise Pascal
88. “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
89. “Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things. —Lao Tzu
90. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
91. “We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. —Albert Einstein
92. “It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless.” —Riccardo Bozzi
93. “If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you. —Alex Trebek
94. “Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” —Jimmy Carter
95. “If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.” —Aristotle
96. “Going to the mountains is like going home.” —John Muir
97. “Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.” —L. Wolfe Gilbert
98. “The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” —E. E. Cummings
99. “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
100.  “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” —Hans Christian Andersen
101. “The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.” —Natalie Angier
102. “My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.” —Aldous Huxley
103.  “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” —Gerard De Nerval