100 Inspirational Quotes About Nature to Uplift Your Spirit

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

- Lao Tzu

"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."

- Gary Snyder

"Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond."

- Robin Wall Kimmerer

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

- Albert Einstein

"Nature is loved by what is best in us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."

- Georgia O’Keeffe

"We can never have enough of nature."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home."

- Gary Snyder

"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"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

"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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… I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."

- Anne Frank

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."

- John Muir

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

- John Burroughs

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—over and over announcing your place in the family of things."

- Mary Oliver

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

- Khalil Gibran

"We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

- Chief Seattle

"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."

- Linda Hogan

"The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth."

- Chief Seattle

"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

"When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world."

- John Muir

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There, a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself. I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this."

- Henry David Thoreau

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

- William Shakespeare

"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."

- E. O. Wilson

"People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and know once again that we desire it. We need to experience a landscape that is timeless, whose agenda moves at the pace of speciation and glaciers. To be surrounded by the singing, mating, howling commotion of other species, all of which love their lives as much as we do ours, and none of which could possibly care less about our economic status or our running day calendar. Wildness puts us in our place."

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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 Louise Carson

"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

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

- Robert Frost

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

- Pedro Calderón de la Barca

"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."

- Michelangelo

"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"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."

- Bjork

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

- Buckminster Fuller

"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"

- E. M. Forster

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my propositions. And some see no nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

- William Blake

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

- John Lubbock

"For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

- Wendell Berry

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has."

- John Lubbock

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"A walk in nature walks the soul back home."

- Mary Davis

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."

- Zeno of Citium

"Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time."

- Katrina Mayer

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

- John Keats

"Nature is pleased with simplicity."

- Sir Isaac Newton

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"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

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."

- Theodore Roethke

"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

- John Updike

"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing."

- Aldous Huxley

"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world."

- Georges Simenon

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

- Dag Hammarskjold

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"Light in Nature creates the movement of colors."

- Robert Delaunay

"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

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Winston Churchill

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon."

- Jean Ingelow

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings."

- William Cullen Bryant

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

- Socrates

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

- Jacques Cousteau

"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

- Dolly Parton

"Never yet was a springtime when the buds forgot to bloom."

- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

- Helen Keller

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

- Henri Matisse

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

- Andy Warhol

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful."

- Alice Walker

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."

- Rachel Carson

"Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful, too."

- Beau Taplin

"The earth has its music for all who will listen."

- Reginald Holmes

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter."

- 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

"You can cut all the flowers, but you can’t keep spring from coming."

- Pablo Neruda

"If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand."

- Buddha

"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."

- Albert Einstein

"Men argue. Nature acts."

- Voltaire

"If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves."

- Steve Irwin

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end…"

- Edward Abbey

"I lie here in the morning sun, the sun that finds me through the honeysuckle leaves, and I think of the sweetness my heart has, and the sweetness of many hearts."

- Peggy Pond Church

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"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."

- Lord Byron

"…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"

- Vincent van Gogh

"How it all nourishes, lulls me, in the way most needed; the open air, the rye-fields, the apple orchards."

- Walt Whitman

"Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you."

- Claude Monet

"If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard."

- Standing Bear

"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 artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena."

- Odilon Redon

"Nature gets into our souls and opens doors to hidden parts of ourselves."

- Pamela Heyda

"I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements."

- Paul Gauguin

"The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized."

- Rachel Carson

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”"

- Lewis Carroll

"In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her."

- Paul Cezanne

"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

"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."

- Jane Austin

"Come forth into the light things; let nature be your teacher."

- William Wordsworth

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

- John Lubbock

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

- Aristotle

"Earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature."

- Joseph Campbell

"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The earth is a living thing. Mountains speak, trees sing, lakes can think, pebbles have a soul, rocks have power."

- Henry Crow Dog

"For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple."

- Mary Oliver

"Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer."

- Radhanath Swami

"Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems to be trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has."

- John Lubbock

"Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The earth has music for those who listen."

- William Shakespeare

"In nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life."

- Vandana Shiva

"When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."

- Aldo Leopold

"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

"An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfillment."

- Sir David Attenborough

"I have great faith in a seed."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."

- John Muir

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

- Albert Camus

"I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."

- Anne Frank

"There is no Wi-Fi in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection."

- Ralph Smart

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Where flowers bloom, so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness."

- Mary Oliver

"Choose only one master—nature."

- Rembrandt

"Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second."

- Mattie Stepanek

"The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship."

- Cennino Cennini

"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."

- Ella Maillart

"Art will never be able to exist without nature."

- Pierre Bonnard

"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."

- Jules Renard

"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."

- E.B. White

"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'"

- Robin Williams

"stay together learn the flowers go light"

- Gary Snyder

"Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne."

- Bryan Procter

"Art takes nature as its model."

- Aristotle

"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature."

- Claude Monet

"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see."

- Henri Rousseau

"Nature’s instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature."

- Henri Rousseau

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

- Rose Kennedy

"Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street… Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks."

- Wassily Kandinsky

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

- Margaret Atwood

"It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine."

- A. A. Milne

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

- Dale Carnegie

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."

- Russell Baker

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Nature is a haunted house — but Art — is a house that tries to be haunted."

- Emily Dickenson

"A tree is known by its fruit."

- Matthew 12:33

"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

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

- Emily Dickinson

"Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure."

- Hans Jean Arp

"Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms."

- Milton Avery

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

- Don Marquis

"The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature."

- Ansel Adams

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

- Emily Dickinson

"An inordinate fondness for beetles."

- J.B.S. Haldane

"There is only one kind of painting: landscape. It is the most difficult. It has also, I believe, the most simple kind of composition. Because no one can stop us from imagining the world in the way that pleases us most."

- André Derain

"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

- Satchel Paige

"A forest bird never wants a cage."

- Henrik Ibsen

"Nature is the art of God."

- Dante Alighieri

"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers."

- Matsuo Basho

"We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel his presence most when his works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night sky, where his worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest his infinitude, his omnipotence, his omnipresence."

- Charlotte Bronte

"A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight."

- John James Audubon

"I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people."

- Grandma Moses

"Replay the tape [of evolution] a million times…and I doubt that anything like Homo sapiens would ever evolve again."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature."

- Lyman Abbott

"It isn’t much good having anything exciting, if you can’t share it with somebody."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

- Wallace Stevens

"I spent the summer traveling; I got halfway across my back yard."

- Louis Agassiz

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."

- Gustave Flaubert

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

- T.S. Eliot

"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still."

- Carl Sagan

"Exploration is curiosity put into action."

- Don Walsh

"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit."

- Frank Borman

"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."

"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."

"When the last tree has been cut, the last river poisoned and the last fish been caught, only then we realise that we cannot eat money."