Nature Quotes

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

- Margaret Atwood

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"The mountains are calling and I must go."

- John Muir

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- John Muir

"Everything about her is captivating, like the aftermath of a storm. People aren’t supposed to get pleasure out of the destruction Mother Nature is capable of, but we want to stare anyway."

- Colleen Hoover

"Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature. Mother Earth looks at us with such dull, soulless eyes, when the sunlight has died away from out of her. It makes us sad to be with her then; she does not seem to know us or to care for us."

- Jerome K. Jerome

"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a ‘wood wide web’ of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods."

- Peter Wohlleben

"But we shouldn't be concerned about trees purely for material reasons, we should also care about them because of the little puzzles and wonders they present us with. Under the canopy of the trees, daily dramas and moving love stories are played out. Here is the last remaining piece of Nature, right on our doorstep, where adventures are to be experienced and secrets discovered."

- Peter Wohlleben

"The desert could not be claimed or owned—it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names."

- Michael Ondaatje

"A good river is nature's life work in song."

- Mark Helprin

"‘Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’ …’It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth.’"

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale."

- Lauren DeStefano

"There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet."

- Peter Wohlleben

"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 best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite 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

"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

"The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no 'meaning,' they are meaning; the mountains are."

- Peter Matthiessen

"All good things are wild and free."

- Henry David Thoreau

"A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature."

- Henry David Thoreau

"In Wildness is the preservation of the world."

- 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

"The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Throw a stone into the stream and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Leave the road, take the trails."

- Pythagoras

"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 emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."

- Frank Lloyd Wright