Nature Quotes

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Lao Tzu

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

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

— John Muir

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

— George Santayana

8. “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

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

— John Muir

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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11. “The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

— Aristotle

13. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

— John Muir

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

— William Hazlitt

15. “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

— Hal Borland

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16. “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

— John Muir

17. “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

— Martin Luther

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

— John Burroughs

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19. “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

— Henry David Thoreau

20. “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”

— Edward Abbey

21. “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

22. “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

— John Keats

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

— Rachel Carson

24. “Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.”

— Marilyn French

25. “I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”

— John Muir

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— John Muir

28. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

— Robert Frost

29. “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

30. “I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”

— Charles A. Lindbergh

31. “The more civilized man becomes, the more he needs and craves a great background of forest wildness, to which he may return like a contrite prodigal from the husks of an artificial life.”

— Ellen Burns Sherman

32. “Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.”

— W. Earl Hall