Nature Quotes

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters.

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.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Seeing wildlife is like seeing celebrities, only better.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

I'm terribly sorry, but nature is not always family friendly.

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.

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. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

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

I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty.

In nature there are neither rewards or punishments - there are consequences.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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.

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

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

And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

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

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd
The wild waves whist.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

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

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

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.

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.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I don't work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.