Top 100 Nature Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

— Aristotle

52. “We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.”

— Andy Goldsworthy

53. “Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.”

— Francis of Assisi

54. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains.”

— John Muir

55. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

— Nhat Hanh

56. “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

57. “Let Nature be your teacher.”

— William Wordsworth

58. “The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. “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

60. “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau

61. “No water, no life. No blue, no green.”

— Sylvia A. Earle

62. “No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.”

— Hal Borland

63. “The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”

— Henry Beston

64. “Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

65. “The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.”

— Steve Irwin

66. “The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.”

— Barry Commoner

67. “Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.”

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

69. “In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

70. “Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; ’tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.”

— William Wordsworth

71. “Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.”

— Richard Louv

72. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

— A. A. Milne

73. “Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.”

— Lao Tzu

74. “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

75. “The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.”

— Galileo Galilei

76. “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

— William Blake

77. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

— Pablo Neruda

78. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

79. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— William Hazlitt

81. “I now walk into the wild.”

— Jon Krakauer

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

— Hal Borland

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

— John Muir

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

— John Burroughs

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Edward Abbey

87. “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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— John Keats

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

— Marilyn French

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

— Rachel Carson

92. “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

93. “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

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

— John Muir

97. “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

98. “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

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

— W. Earl Hall

100. “Experience nature, and in doing so learn about yourself.”

— Japanese Proverb