Nature Quotes

Looking for some inspiration? Here are some nature quotes to connect you to the world around us.

"The earth has music for those who listen." - George Santayana.

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir.

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu.

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Take a moment to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of our natural world. 

 "What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?" E.M. Forster

“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, The Bell Jar

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”

― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

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

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

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

“Remember, no one is stopping you from lighting a lamp in a dark night.” – Harivansh Rai Bacchan

“To keep your mind and nature cleansed of impurities, make a hut for your critics in your backyard and keep them close.” – Kabir

“Devotion is that which generates knowledge; knowledge is that which fashions freedom.” – Tulsidas

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my propositions. And some see no nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." William Blake

"Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat." Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." Sir John Lubbock

"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature." Claude Monet

"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder" E.B.White

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter." Rachel Carson

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden." Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness." Mary Oliver

"Never yet was a springtime when the buds forgot to bloom." Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself." Henry David Thoreau

"Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has." John Lubbock

"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

"We can never have enough of nature." Henry David Thoreau

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end…" Edward Abbey

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." Joseph Campbell

Andy Warhol

"I having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want."- Andy Warhol

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. –Alice Walker

 Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. —Khalil Gibran

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. —Helen Keller

We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. —Native American proverb

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. —Rachel Carson

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

 I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. —John Burroughs

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 emanations from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. —Robert Louis Stevenson

 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

There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it. —Charlotte Eriksson

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

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

All my life , the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. —Marie Curie

 The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.” — John Lubbock

“God is discovered entirely through creation – the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds you hear in the heart of the forest, or the vastness of space and its countless stars.” — Benjamin Sullivan

“If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans… When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.” — Wilfrid Noyce

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

“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

“Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.” — Brooke Hampton

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” — Jimmy Carter

“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

“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” — D. H. Lawrence

“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

“We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” — Native American proverb

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” — Albert Einstein

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home." Gary Snyder