Nature Quotations

Albert Camus

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is...

Albert Camus

In the depth of winter I finally learned that...

Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand...

Albert Schweitzer

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to...

Aldo Leopold

In June as many as a dozen species may...

Alice Walker

I think it pisses God off if you walk...

Ambrose Bierce

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of...

Anais Nin

And the day came when the risk to remain...

Anais Nin

I know why familles were created, with all their...

Andrew Wyeth

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the...

Annie Dillard

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to...

Ansel Adams

It is horrifying that we have to fight our...

Ansel Adams

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a...

Antonio Porchia

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and...

Anton Chekhov

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times...

Aristotle

If one way be better than another, that you...

Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of...

Bertrand Russell

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk...

Bill Vaughan

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau,...

Boris Pasternak

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching...

Carl Sagan

In order to make an apple pie from scratch,...

Carl Sandburg

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and...

Charles Lindbergh

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and...

Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to...

Dag Hammarskjold

Never measure the height of a mountain until you...

Dale Carnegie

One of the most tragic things I know about...

David Gerrold

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that...

David Letterman

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching...

Debbie Harry

I don't mind if my skull ends up on...

Diane Ackerman

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all...

Diane Ackerman

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent...

Don DeLillo

There's always a period of curious fear between the...

Doug Larson

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with...

Edward Abbey

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so...

Elizabeth Bishop

All my life I have lived and behaved very...

Elizabeth Gray Vining

Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of...

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet...

The moment a little boy is concerned with which...

The art of never making a mistake is crucial...

Ernest Jones

The control man has secured over nature has far...

I thank you God for this most amazing day,...

The world is mud-luscious and...

Nature, to be commanded, must be...

We cannot command Nature except by obeying...

I believe in God, only I spell it...

It is not light that we need, but fire;...

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it...

Except during the nine months before he draws his...

George Gissing

For the man sound in body and serene of...

I love to think of nature as an unlimited...

Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided that if I could paint that flower...

Gerard De Nerval

Every flower is a soul blossoming in...

Hal Borland

A woodland in full color is awesome as a...

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing...

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse...

What makes a river so restful to people is...

Hamlin Garland

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the...

Hamlin Garland

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given...

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins...

Hans Christian Anderson

Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine,...

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or...

There are always flowers for those who want to...

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and...

Heaven is under our feet as well as over...

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the...

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder...

If a man walks in the woods for love...

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us...

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am...

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the...

The bluebird carries the sky on his...

The sun, the moon and the stars would have...

Use what talent you possess - the woods would...

The best thing one can do when it's raining...

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in...

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and...

H. G. Wells

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable...

Ikkyu Sojun

Break open a cherry tree and there are no...

People from a planet without flowers would think we...

I did not become a vegetarian for my health,...

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble...

When I see a bird that walks like a...

To sit in the shade on a fine day...

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is...

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around...

You hear a lot of actors talking about, Oooooh,...

Like music and art, love of nature is a...

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and...

One must ask children and birds how cherries and...

I go to nature to be soothed and healed,...

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no...

John Fowles

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to...

John F. Kennedy

I look forward to an America which will not...

John Keats

The poetry of the earth is never...

John Lubbock

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers,...

John Lubbock

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on...

John Muir

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing...

John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good...

John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to...

John Muir

God has cared for these trees, saved them from...

John Muir

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the...

John Muir

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the...

John Muir

In every walk with nature one receives far more...

John Muir

Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or...

John Muir

The clearest way into the Universe is through a...

John Muir

There is that in the glance of a flower...

John Muir

When one tugs at a single thing in nature,...

John Ruskin

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us...

Joseph Conrad

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth...

Julia Roberts

Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh...

Kahlil Gibran

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your...

Katharine Graham

A mistake is simply another way of doing...

Kin Hubbard

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't...

Langston Hughes

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness...

Langston Hughes

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat...

Leo Buscaglia

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I...

Lou Holtz

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,...

Mao Zedong

Let a hundred flowers...

Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed...

Marilyn Monroe

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had...

Marshall McLuhan

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are...

Martin Luther

For in the true nature of things, if we...

Mary Catherine Bateson

Worlds can be found by a child and an...

Mary McDonnell

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going...

Ogden Nash

I think that I shall never see a billboard...

Orison Swett Marden

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and...

Orison Swett Marden

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything...

Pam Brown

For every person who has ever lived there has...

Rabindranath Tagore

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has...

Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to...

Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature always wears the colors of the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates...

Robert Byrne

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up...

Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without...

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not so much for its beauty that...

Robert Lynd

There is nothing in which the birds differ more...

Robert Redford

I think the environment should be put in the...

Robin Williams

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's...

Roger Daltrey

I felt that we did a fairly reasonable performance...

Roger Miller

Some people walk in the rain, others just get...

Roger Zelazny

It seemed that a lot of people liked the...

Rose Kennedy

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel...

Rupert Brooke

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed...

Russell Baker

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us...

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you...

Saint Basil

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon...

Sally Quinn

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women...

Samuel Butler

A hen is only an egg's way of making...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad...

Sandra Day O'Connor

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make...

Sara Teasdale

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid...

He is richest who is content with the least,...

Steven Weinberg

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But...

Tennessee Williams

The violets in the mountains have broken the...

Thomas Browne

All things are artificial, for nature is the art...

Thomas Merton

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that...

Toni Morrison

All water has a perfect memory and is forever...

Vincent Van Gogh

When I have a terrible need of - shall...

Walter Scott

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you...

Walt Whitman

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than...

Walt Whitman

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful...

Walt Whitman

I believe a leaf of grass is no less...

Wendell Berry

I am not bound for any public place, but...

Wendell Berry

The care of the Earth is our most ancient...

Willa Cather

I like trees because they seem more resigned to...

William C. Bryant

The groves were God's first...

William C. Bryant

Weep not that the world changes - did it...

William Ellery Channing

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off...

William Hazlitt

We do not see nature with our eyes, but...

William Manchester

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach...

William Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds...

William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land;...

William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world...

William Wordsworth

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature...

Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow...

Woody Allen

I am two with...