After reading through these nature quotes, you should feel just a little bit happier — and maybe like going on a walk.
Man has always turned to nature for inspiration. Whether it’s for beauty, peace, success, or anything else, nature has always provided answers to our questions. We are not born into nature. We are born out of it.
Nature has everything we need to live, inspire, learn from, grow from, and succeed. There is nothing like it. Everything comes from it, and everything goes into it. That’s part of what makes these nature quotes so interesting.
Nature has always been cherished for its boundless and unrivaled beauty. Again, it has been the source of inspiration for poets and authors. It has also inspired the men and women of science, designers, and philosophers.
Whether you are looking for inspiration from nature or beautiful words about nature, here is a collection of notable words on nature.
Beautiful Nature Quotes
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
Mother Nature has the best box of crayons.
Unknown
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
Henry David Thoreau
If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence,
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
William Shakespeare
Get lost in nature, and you will find yourself.
Unknown
To me, a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller
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
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life – no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quotes about Nature
Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
Alfred Billings Street
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
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Be patient with yourself – nothing in nature blooms all year.
Unknown
Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.
Charles Cook
We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb
I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
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Natural Beauty Quotes
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
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming ‘War Horse’ on Dartmoor.
Steven Spielberg
There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature.
Aristotle
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Vincent Van Gogh
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
Go out, go out, I beg of you
And taste the beauty of the wild.
Behold the miracle of the earth
With all the wonder of a child.
Edna Jaques
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Mother Nature Sayings
And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
Vincent Van Gogh
One of the things that people don’t realize is that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.
Ed Rendell
Each moment of the year has its own beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we’re not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.
Gloria Reuben
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.
John Burroughs
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
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Nature Quote
These are brand-new birds of
twelve-months growing,
Which a year ago, or less than twain,
No finches were, nor nightingales,
Nor thrushes,
But only particles of grain,
And earth and air, and rain.
Thomas Hardy
Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.
Mary Oliver
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature-the assurance that dawn comes after night and spring after winter.
Rachel Carson
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Max Ehrmann
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C.S. Lewis
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God’s Art Quotations
Nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne
Keep your love for Nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
Vincent van Gogh
We inter-breath with the rain forests; we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye, looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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I will be the gladdest thing under the sun. I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.
Author Unknown
The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo
Nature: Cheaper than therapy.
Unknown
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
Goethe
Mother Nature Quotations
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush and angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony, and beauty may reign supreme.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Natural Law is the final and absolute authority governing E Te No Ha, the earth we call our Mother.
Author Unknown
Nature, with equal mind,
Sees all her sons at play,
Sees man control the wind,
The wind sweeps man away.
Matthew Arnold
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no power greater than the Natural Laws. These powers were set up by the Great Spirit so that the human being has no access to it, except by obeying. If we choose not to follow the Natural Laws, our lives will be filled with confusion, tension, anxiety, and stress. If we poison the Earth, we poison ourselves – If we poison the Water of the Earth, we poison ourselves. As we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves and our children, even the unborn children. May we think about this today and ask ourselves, Are we holding and acting toward the Mother Earth in a good way?
Author Unknown
All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.
John Lubbock
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Quotations About Beauty In Nature
Away from the tumult of motor and mill
I want to be carefree; I want to be still!
I’m weary of doing things, weary of words
I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.
Edgar A. Guest
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, and dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
Edward Abbey
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
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
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Wonders of the World
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful — an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
Ansel Adams
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more,
to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks
where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes,
or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that
tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!
Helen Keller
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
Martin Luther
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once, I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
William Wordsworth
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Sayings on Nature
In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
John Milton
The mountains are calling, and I must go.
John Muir
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Keep your sense of proportion by regularly, preferably daily, visiting the natural world.
Catlin Matthews
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms the judgment of nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits; there is strength in the hills if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
Calvin Coolidge
In seed, time learns; in harvest, teach; in winter, enjoy.
William Blake
Nature’s Style
Nature never goes out of style.
Unknown
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars.
Walt Whitman
Study nature, love nature, and stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
God is the friend of silence. Trees, flowers, and grass grow in silence. See the stars, moon, and sun, and how they move in silence.
Mother Theresa
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 off like autumn leaves.
John Muir
Best Nature Quotes
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
Isaac Newton
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
Claude Monet
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
Buddha
Come forth into the light of things; let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau
Love of Nature
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice Walker
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in my walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat.
Vijay Hamilton
We do not see nature with our eyes but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt
Beauty in the Outdoors
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
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
If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.
Alex Trebek
Sunshine is delicious; rain is refreshing; wind braces us up; snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
Louie Schwartzberg
Short Nature Quotes
I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Anne Frank
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
Carl Sagan
Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Edmund Burke
Men argue. Nature acts.
Voltaire
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is an author and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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