Embrace the Beauty of Nature: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes

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

- Alice Walker

"What about naming trees?...If we have a tree in our name, we want that tree to live."

- Jane Goodall

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"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

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

- Claude Monet

"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

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

- John Muir

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

- Reginald Holmes

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

- Gary Snyder

"The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself."

- Rachel Carson

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

- John Muir

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Mary Davis

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

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Nature is pleased with simplicity."

- Sir Isaac Newton

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

- E.B. White

"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

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

- Chief Seattle

"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

"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

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

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Hans Christian Andersen

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

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

- Jacques Cousteau

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

- Steve Irwin

"The mountains are calling and I must go."

- John Muir

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

- John Burroughs

"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 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

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

- Rachel Carson

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Nature is the art of God."

- Dante Alighieri

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

- Lao Tzu

"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

"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

"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

"All good things are wild and free."

- Henry David Thoreau

"In Wildness is the preservation of the world."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

- Carl Sagan

"The earth has music for those who listen."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Joseph Campbell

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration."

- Claude Monet

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

- Gary Snyder

"Going to the mountains is like going home."

- John Muir

"By discovering nature, you discover yourself."

- Maxime Lagacé

"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

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

- Rachel Carson

"Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude."

- Louie Schwartzberg

"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

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Aristotle

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

- Theodore Roethke

"Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world."

- John Muir

"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 believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."

- Walt Whitman

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."

- Ansel Adams

"Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things."

- Lao Tzu

"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you."

- Alex Trebek

"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."

- Aristotle

"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself."

- L. Wolfe Gilbert

"Some of nature’s most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake."

- Rachel Carson

"The beauty of the natural world lies in the details."

- Natalie Angier

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

- Gerard De Nerval

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

- Buddha

"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

"Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time."

- Katrina Mayer

"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- William Shakespeare

"The earth is what we all have in common."

- Wendell Berry

"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

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

- Zeno of Citium

"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

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

- Peter Wohlleben

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

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."

- Marie Curie

"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Henri Matisse

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."

- John Burroughs

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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 poetry of the earth is never dead."

- John Keats

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

- Walt Whitman

"Men argue. Nature acts."

- Voltaire

"‘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

"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are."

- Gretel Ehrlich

"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

"The Amen of nature is always a flower."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

- Robin Williams

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

- Blaise Pascal

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"Choose only one master—nature."

- Rembrandt

"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

"Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."

- George Santanaya

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

- Jane Austen

"Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another."

- Edmund Burke

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

- Albert Einstein

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."

- Blaise Pascal

"The ocean is a mighty harmonist."

- William Wordsworth

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

- Standing Bear

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

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries."

- Jimmy Carter

"Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind."

- Amit Ray

"I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax."

- Richard Feynman

"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 is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy."

- Isaac Newton

"The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order."

- Henry Miller

"It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless."

- Riccardo Bozzi

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

"Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet."

- Brooke Hampton

"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."

- Michel de Montaigne

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."

- E. E. Cummings

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."

- D. H. Lawrence

"There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

- Henry van Dyke

"Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them."

- Dogen

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

- Galileo Galilei

"Colors are the smiles of nature."

- Leigh Hunt

"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

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

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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

- Mark Helprin

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

- Winston Churchill

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Leave the road, take the trails."

- Pythagoras

"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise."

- James Russell Lowell

"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

"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."

- David Attenborough