Top 100 Nature Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “All good things are wild and free.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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2. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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3. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

— Lao Tzu

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4. “Nature is pleased with simplicity.”

— Isaac Newton

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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6. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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7. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

— John Muir

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8. “A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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9. “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

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10. “We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.”

— Steve Irwin

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11. “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

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12. “In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.”

— David Suzuki

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13. “Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.”

— Chief Seattle

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14. “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”

— David Attenborough

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15. “The earth has music for those who listen.”

— George Santayana

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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17. “The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.”

— David Attenborough

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18. “As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.”

— John Muir

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19. “Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing.”

— John Muir

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20. “I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.”

— John Muir

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21. “The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

— Chief Seattle

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22. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

— John Muir

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23. “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

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24. “I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

— William Wordsworth

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25. “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

— Chief Seattle

26. “Going to the mountains is going home.”

— John Muir

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27. “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

— John Muir

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28. “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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29. “The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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30. “The earth is what we all have in common.”

— Wendell Berry

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31. “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

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32. “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

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33. “When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”

— Alanis Obomsawin

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34. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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35. “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

— John Muir

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36. “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in 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.”

— Lord Byron

37. “What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

— Henry David Thoreau

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38. “One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.”

— John Muir

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39. “We only get one planet.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

40. “Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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41. “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”

— Gary Snyder

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42. “The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

43. “What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.”

— David Attenborough

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44. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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46. “In nature nothing exists alone.”

— Rachel Carson

47. “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”

— Dr. Seuss

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48. “The mountains are calling and I must go.”

— John Muir

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49. “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

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50. “There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.”

— Maria Montessori

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