From spring’s hopeful new blooms and fall’s exquisite array of colors to winter’s magic and summer’s energy, each season abounds with different types of natural beauty to explore and admire. Take a moment to get outdoors and appreciate the world’s natural wonders.

Whether you’re working in the garden, hitting the local trails for a socially distant hike with your pup, or even relaxing on the beach, is good for the soul. There’s something about the outdoors that gets our blood flowing smoother and our heart beating stronger. There’s probably some sort of research about endorphins and all sorts of science that can explain why the wilderness refreshes us.

These 400 quotes about Nature will have you itching to get off your couch and get outside. These nature quotes will get you excited about being outside, whether you need it or not.

Also check out our collection of quotes about weather as well as these inspirational travel quotes for more inspiration. We also have a selection of health quotes. Don’t forget to read that as well.

400 Inspirational Quotes On Nature

Top 10 Nature Quotes

“The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.” – Albert Einstein

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

“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

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

“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

“Enjoy the peace of Nature and declutter your inner world.” – Amit Ray

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.” – Robert Frost

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock

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“Nature is the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.” – Google

“Nature is the art of God.” – Dante Alighieri

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” – Isaac Newton

“Nature is our mother.” – Latin proverb

“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.” – Terence McKenna

“Nature is not human hearted.” – Lao Tzu

“Nature is not benevolent: with ruthless indifference she makes all things serve their purposes.” – Lao Tzu

“Nature is not an engineer or a contractor, and I myself am a part of Nature.” – Albert Einstein

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder

“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nature is loved by what is best in us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.” – Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.” – Edward Abbey

“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

“Nature is cheaper than therapy.”

“Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.” – Blaise Pascal

“Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.” – George Santanaya

“Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.” – John Donne

“Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day.” – Nothing gold can stay.” – Robert Frost

“Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.” – Louie Schwartzberg

“Nature, to be controlled, must be obeyed.” – Francis Bacon

“Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.” – Chinese proverb

“Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe.” – Wikipedia

“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

“Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely. Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature.” – Jeb Dickerson

“Nature rarely surrenders one of her magnificent secrets.” – Albert Einstein

“Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done.” – Donald L. Hicks

“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.” – Mark Twain

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” – E. O. Wilson

“Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.” – Maya Angelou

“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.” – Lorraine Anderson

“Nature does nothing uselessly.” – Aristotle

“Nature does nothing in vain.” – Aristotle

“Nature can do more than physicians.” – Oliver Cromwell

“I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.” – Antoine Lavoisier

Best Nature Quotes

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“Not just beautiful, though – the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” – Haruki Murakami

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

“Leave the roads; take the trails.” – Pythagoras

“On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.” – Jules Renard

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

“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’” – Robin Williams

“And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” – Vincent van Gogh

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’ ” – Syliva Plath

“Being able to smell the fresh air and disconnect from the news and your phone—there’s nothing like it.” – Jason Ward

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

“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

“Choose only one master – nature.” – Rembrandt

“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” – Toni Morrison

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

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval

“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

“I believe the best way to begin reconnecting humanity’s heart, mind, and soul to nature is for us to share our individual stories.” – J. Drew Lanham

“In nature there are neither rewards or punishments – there are consequences.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.” – Zora Neale Hurston

“Colors are the smiles of nature.” – Leigh Hunt

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” – Carl Sagan

“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.” – Aldo Leopold

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir

“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.” – L. Wolfe Gilbert

“Birds have always had the ability to bring me out of a dark space and provide relief in bad times.” – Jason Ward

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” – Toni Morrison

“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse

“Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.” – Francis Bacon

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

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare

“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

“I think Nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never gonna let us relax!” – Richard Phillip Feynman

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus

Short Nature Quotes

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“Water is the driving force in nature.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“All nature is but art unknown to thee.” – Alexander Pope

“The course of Nature is the art of God.” – Edward Young

“The Amen of nature is always a flower.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“A flower is an educated weed.” – Luther Burbank

“A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.” – Joshua Reynolds

“Adapt or perish, now as never, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” – H.G. Wells

“All things in nature occur mathematically.” – René Descartes

“Architects cannot teach nature anything.” – Mark Twain

“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned.” – Cormac McCarthy

“Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.” – Honore de Balzac

“Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth

“Days decrease – and autumn grows, autumn in everything.” – Robert Browning

“Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” – Sara Raasch

“Every dewdrop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.” – Gretel Ehrlich

“For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death.” – Tom McMillan

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” – Walt Whitman

“I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.” – Alan Hovhaness

“If you have a garden and library, you have everything you need.” – Cicero

“If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“It is in the still silence of nature where one will find true bliss.”

“It’s very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.” – Albert Hofmann

“Land really is the best art.” – Andy Warhol

“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.” – Robert Delaunay

“Maybe kissing is sort of like nature’s coffee.” – Scott Westerfeld

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” – Virginia Woolf

“Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.” – Antoni Gaudi

“Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.” – Mattie Stepanek

“Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.” – Arapaho proverb

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” – John Keats

“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” – William Wordsworth

“The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.” – Barry Commoner

“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.” – Edouard Manet

“There is no forgiveness in nature.” – Ugo Betti

“There is no better designer than nature.” – Alexander McQueen

Famous Nature Quotes

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“As a scientist, I believe that nature is a perfect structure, seen from the standpoint of reason and logical analysis.” – Albert Einstein

“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.” – Albert Einstein

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Albert Einstein

“In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions.” – Albert Einstein

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” – Charles Dickens

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein

“Men argue. Nature acts.” – Voltaire

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” – Max Planck

“There is an element of truth in everything. Nature teaches, although it can sometimes be misleading.” – Bruce Lee

“There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature.” – Aristotle

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

“Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable.” – Albert Einstein

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

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

“You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.” – Christian Dior

Inspirational Nature Quotes

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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” – William Blake

“All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.” – Helen Hayes

“An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.” – David Attenborough

“For the 99 percent of the time we’ve been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.” – Janine M. Benyus

“I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.” – John Burroughs

“I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

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

“If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.” – Henry Beston

“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

“Nature’s law is stronger than any little law you have made for yourself.” – Frank A. De Puy

“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” – Dag Hammarskjold

“Something of God… flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.” – C. S. Lewis

“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” – Claude Monet

“The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.” – L.M. Montgomery

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

“Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.” – Wynn Bullock

Beautiful Nature Quotes

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“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.” – Stephenie Meyer

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.” – William Shakespeare

“I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.” – Björk

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.” – Andy Warhol

“I’ve seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there’s nothing closer to God than that.” – Cote de Pablo

“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” – Bill Watterson

“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.” – Rachel Carson

“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

“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.” – Amit Ray

“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

“To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes…” – Christian Bovee

“There is beauty in simplicity.

“The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged – keep on – there are divine things, well envelop’d; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.” – Walt Whitman

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.” – Anne Frank

“The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.” – Natalie Angier

“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James

“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

“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.” – William Blake

“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” – Henry van Dyke

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.” – Edward Abbey

“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.” – Theodore Roethke

Funny Nature Quotes

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“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.” – Joseph Wood Krutch

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

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.” – George Carlin

“I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice.” – Alice Walker

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” – E.B. White

“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” – Michel de Montaigne

“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

Mother Nature Quotes

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“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.” – George Washington Carver

“To me, Mother Nature isn’t nearly as scary as human nature.” – Paula Stokes

“Sometimes Mother Nature has the answers when you do not even know the questions.” – Keith Wynn

“Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.” – Greg Peterson

“Mother Nature speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer.” – Radhanath Swami

“Mother Nature presents neither a wrinkled face nor tottering form, but constantly renews the bloom of her youth, while time fills up the volumes of her history.” – James Lendall Basford

“Mother Nature doesn’t care if you’re having fun. ” – Larry Niven

“If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.” – Alex Trebek

“There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, “natura naturans.” There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.” – Thomas Merton

“No one owns the water. No one owns the lands. No one owns the oceans. No one owns the sands. These are given by our Mother. Our planet provides for free. Only by hands of the greedy. Does the Earth require a fee.” – Poet Christopher

“I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax.” – Richard Phillips Feynman

“Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.” – Celia Thaxter

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

“What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.” – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” – George R.R. Martin

Human Nature Quotes

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“Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.” – Graham Greene

“I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively, instead of skeptically and dictatorially.” – E.B. White

“One’s true nature is revealed in time of difficulty.” – Chinese proverb

“Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.” – John Keats

“The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.” – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never.” – Chinese proverb

Save Nature Quotes

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“To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to inspire.” – J. Drew Lanham

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. Even so, God cannot save them from fools.” – John Muir

“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” – John Muir

“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

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” – Rachel Carson

Nature Photography Quotes

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“Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.” – Nicolas Cage

“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.” – John Steinbeck

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” – Delia Owens

“Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you’ll find it there.” – Robb Sagendorph

“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” – Rachel Carson

“It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee.” – Daniel Quinn

“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” – Jane Austen

“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

Good Morning Nature Quotes

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“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” – John Lennon

“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.” – John Burroughs

“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.” – Wallace Stevens

“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” – Samuel Butler

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.” – Kenneth Grahame

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked – as I am surprisingly often – why I bother to get up in the mornings.” – Richard Dawkins

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” – Walt Whitman

Nature Quotes John Muir

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“Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.” – John Muir

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

“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

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” – John Muir

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” – John Muir

“There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.” – John Muir

“The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir

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

“The sun shines not on us but in us.” – John Muir

“The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir

“The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir

“Only spread a fern-frond over a man’s head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.” – John Muir

“One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.” – John Muir

“One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.” – John Muir

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

“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 off like autumn leaves.”—John Muir, Our National Parks

“Most people are on the world, not in it.” – John Muir

“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

“In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.” – John Muir

“In every walk in with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir

“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

“I never saw a discontented tree.” – John Muir

“I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.” – John Muir

“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

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” – John Muir

“Going to the mountains is like going home.” – John Muir

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” – John Muir

“Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.” – John Muir

“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

“Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.” – John Muir

“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

“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.” – John Muir

“And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” – John Muir

Nature Quotes Emerson

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“To speak truly, few adults can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There I feel that nothing can befall me.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The stars awaken a certain reverence because though always present they are inaccessible.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Standing on the bare ground – my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space – all mean egotism vanishes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of this childhood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctify reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousands years.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of beauty.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature Quotes Thoreau

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“You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Wildness is the preservation of the world.” – Henry David Thoreau

“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” – Henry David Thoreau

“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” – Henry David Thoreau

“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

“The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,–of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,–such health, such cheer, they afford forever!” – Henry David Thoreau

“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?” – Henry David Thoreau

“Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.” – Henry David Thoreau

“My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God’s lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature.” – Henry David Thoreau

“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.” – Henry David Thoreau

“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

“I was determined to know beans.” – Henry David Thoreau

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” – Henry David Thoreau

“I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.” – Henry David Thoreau

“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.” – Henry David Thoreau

“I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” – Henry David Thoreau

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” – Henry David Thoreau

“All good things are wild and free.” – Henry David Thoreau

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