479 quotes
“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to those who take care of us.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
“In nature nothing exists alone and this interconnection is understood best through simple observation”
— Rachel Carson
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
— William Blake
“Find peace in every grain of sand and in every flower that blooms.”
— Emily Dickinson
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Water is the first principle of all things.”
— Thales of Miletus
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
— Aristotle
“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.”
— Xenophon
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us giving us moments of wonder and joy.”
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.”
— Lao Tzu
“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
— Edith Wharton
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
— Victor Hugo
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks.”
— Ansel Adams
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
— George Santayana
“Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.”
— William Wordsworth
“There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
— Khalil Gibran
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
— Unknown
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable like force and matter. When they separate man is no more.”
— Nikola Tesla
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee and revery”
“The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.”
— Terry Tempest Williams
“We sit together the mountain and me until only the mountain remains”
— Li Bai
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“As long as humanity continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings it will never know health or peace.”
— Pythagoras
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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, is by no means a waste of time.”
— John Lubbock
“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a mans heart away from nature becomes hard.”
— Luther Standing Bear
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.”
— Mary Oliver
“Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.”
— Pliny the Elder
“Walking into the wind the mountains never move”
— Santoka Taneda
“I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.”
— Queen Elizabeth I
“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”
— John Muir
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein
“No one will protect what they dont care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.”
— David Attenborough
“Study nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
— Cicero
“The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.”
— Annie Dillard
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
— Claude Monet
“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.”
— Chief Seattle
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
— Saint Francis of Assisi
“Sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself.”
— Bashō
“Happiness is your nature it is not wrong to desire it what is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside”
— Ramana Maharshi
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.”
— Isak Dinesen
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
— E.O. Wilson
“No one will protect what they dont care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced.”
“My goal is to erase architecture and make buildings that melt into the landscape”
— Kengo Kuma
— Matsuo Basho
“The least flower with a brimming cup may stand and shade my head from burning sun.”
— Thomas Merton
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
“The ecological crisis is a crisis of character not a crisis of resources.”
— Arne Naess
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks”
“The observer when he seems to himself to be observing a stone is really observing the effects of the stone upon himself.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
“The physician treats, but nature heals.”
— Hippocrates
“Man may dismiss compassion, and those who feel it are sometimes combated as weaklings. But the process is a natural one. And the feeling that results is often the most profound thing in life.”
— Charles Darwin
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me fluttering from the autumn tree.”
— Emily Bronte
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
“The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.”
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
“Every day priests minutely examine the law and endlessly chant complicated sutras before doing that though they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain the snow and moon”
— Ikkyu
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
— Muir of Dinnet
“Settle into solitude like a tree in the midst of a vast plain — rooted, silent, and alive.”
— Rumi
“It is the people who must save the environment. It is the people who must make their leaders change.”
— Wangari Maathai
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
— Thomas Browne
“Where we love is home home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Let us cultivate our garden.”
— Voltaire
“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
— Vandana Shiva
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
— Julian of Norwich
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me”
— Hafiz
“The tortoise like other reptiles has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs and can refrain from eating as well as breathing for a great part of the year.”
— Gilbert White
“Walking and walking the green mountains never end”
“The greatest wealth is health.”
— Virgil
“The fountains mingle with the river, and the rivers with the ocean.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
“There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.”
— Willa Cather
“No water, no life. No blue, no green.”
— Sylvia Earle
“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense knew we were coming.”
— Freeman Dyson
“An old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence again.”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am I am I am.”
— Sylvia Plath
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful for beauty is Gods handwriting”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.”
— Buckminster Fuller
“Great art picks up where nature ends”
— Marc Chagall
“The moon goes down beauty is shut in behind its doors.”
— Tu Fu
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.”
— Deng Ming-Dao
“I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out and I say oh I am miserable what shall I do and the sea says in its lovely voice excuse me I have work to do”
“In all chaos there is a cosmos in all disorder a secret order.”
— Carl Jung
“Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
— Blaise Pascal
— William Shakespeare
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Nature is not our enemy to be raped and conquered but the very fabric of wonder that we are woven into”
— Terence McKenna
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
— Helen Keller
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”
“Joy in looking and comprehending is natures most beautiful gift.”
— Konrad Lorenz
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”
“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.”
— Muir
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”
“The earth has enough for everyone's need, and beauty to spare.”
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.”
— Wendell Berry
“It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”
— Nikolai Gogol
“Wherever you are you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“I said to the almond tree friend speak to me of God and the almond tree blossomed.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.”
— Gaston Bachelard
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself what if I had never seen this before what if I knew I would never see it again.”
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished through simplicity”
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community.”
— Aldo Leopold
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are.”
“If you truly love nature you will find beauty everywhere.”
“Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures”
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them whoever knows how to listen to them can learn the truth.”
— Herman Hesse
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
— John Burroughs
“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
— David Thoreau
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.”
“The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.”
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.”
“I think nature has imagination and wonder far greater than the imagination of any person”
— Richard Feynman
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
“If all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks”
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
“The first peace which is the most important is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship their oneness with the universe.”
— Black Elk
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life”
“The rain has stopped the clouds have drifted away and the weather is clear again”
— Ryokan
“Nature made us for the open air and the sunlight.”
— Giacomo Leopardi
“The universe is not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects.”
— Thomas Berry
“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we begin to use it with love and respect.”
“If there is magic on this planet it is contained in water.”
— Loren Eiseley
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
“Nature does nothing in vain.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“There is grandeur in this view of life.”
“The best remedy for those who are afraid lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens nature and God.”
— Anne Frank
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks in solitary communion”
“To find a buddha all you have to do is see your nature”
— Bodhidharma
“Apprehend God in all things for God is in all things.”
— Meister Eckhart
“The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule of DNA.”
— Lewis Thomas
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.”
— Wallace Stegner
“We are a spectacular splendid manifestation of life.”
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
— Pablo Neruda
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.”
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it. Life is long enough and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.”
— Seneca
“In every outward-reaching effort of life there is a wondrous diversity.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
— John Keats
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
“Even a small window is a wormhole to a world beyond our imagining.”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“Colors are the smiles of nature.”
— Leigh Hunt
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life.”
“The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
— Yeats
“Reading about nature is fine but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully he can learn more than what is in books.”
— George Washington Carver
“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.”
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better through a sense of wonder”
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.”
— Robert Frost
“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.”
“In nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted bent in weird ways and they are still beautiful.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.”
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself”
— Zen Proverb
“Come forth into the light of things let Nature be your teacher”
“Come forth into the light of things let Nature be your teacher.”
“Only to the white man was nature a wilderness and only to him was it infested with wild animals and savage people.”
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
— Jane Austen
“I grew up in this town my poetry was born between the hill and the river it took its voice from the rain and like the timber it steeped itself in creative forests.”
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
— Emerson
“We sit together the mountain and me until only the mountain remains.”
“Dreaming of the morrow, the butterfly hovers above the rapeseed flowers.”
— Matsuo Bashō
“Heaven and earth are not humane; they treat all things as straw dogs.”
— Laozi
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, they can learn more than what is in books.”
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
— Epicurus
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction”
“The moon is the mirror of time.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat tears or the sea.”
“I have always been influenced by nature rather than other art”
— Ellsworth Kelly
“After you have exhausted what there is in business politics conviviality and so on and found that none of these finally satisfy what remains is nature.”
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius
“In every outward push of the sea is a vast and remarkable patience.”
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery air mountains trees people. I thought this is what it is to be happy.”
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
— Eleonora Duse
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things man will not himself find peace.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“The earth is weeping and laughing simultaneously.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Hidden nature is secret God”
— Sri Aurobindo
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
“The pine stays green in winter; wisdom is seeing that this is the nature of the pine.”
“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.”
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
— Isaac Newton
“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
— James Russell Lowell
“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment.”
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”
“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
— Edward Abbey
“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.”
“The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring.”
— Bern Williams
“Look to this day for it is life the very life of life.”
— Kalidasa
“Some say an army of horsemen some an army of foot and some of ships is the fairest thing on the black earth but I say it is what you love.”
— Sappho
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair as nature heals you”
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.”
— Lord Byron
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
“There is no wealth but life.”
— John Ruskin
“Heaven and earth and I are of the same root. The ten thousand things and I are of one substance.”
— Seng-chao
“I dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
— Diane Ackerman
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. One clover and a bee and revery.”
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs but not every mans greed.”
“Heaven and earth are impartial; they treat all things as straw dogs. The Tao is like a bellows: empty yet inexhaustible.”
“One cannot think well love well sleep well if one has not dined well.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, you owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
— Simone Weil
“The earth laughs in flowers”
“Love is the river of life in this world.”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
“Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.”
— Francis Bacon
“Nature is the time-loss country in the whole world.”
— Oswald Chambers
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The glory of nature is that it is incomprehensible.”
“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye — it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
— Edvard Munch
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
— Gary Snyder
“Glance at the sun and see the moon gaze at the stars and observe all the green things growing with wonder”
— Hildegard of Bingen
“The universe is not a collection of objects, but a communion of subjects.”
“A true conservationist is someone who knows that the world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.”
— John James Audubon
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.”
“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”
— Charles Dickens
“A flower falls, yet it returns to the branch — look, a butterfly!”
— Moritake Arakida
“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
— Maria Mitchell
“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'”
— Robin Williams
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
“Smile breathe and go slowly.”
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see”
— Henri Rousseau
“Heaven and earth and I were produced together and all things and I are one.”
— Zhuangzi
“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”
“Be realistic plan for a miracle.”
— Osho
“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
“Nature is not a temple but a workshop and man is the workman in it.”
— Ivan Turgenev
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees”
“The nitrogen in our DNA the calcium in our teeth the iron in our blood the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars.”
— Carl Sagan
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
— Thomas Edison
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.”
“The soul of a tree lives on in my furniture”
— George Nakashima
“The peace of wild things comes to me when I lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water.”
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather. Your fundamental nature is peace.”
— Pema Chodron
“A flower falls even though we love it a weed grows even though we do not love it”
— Dogen Zenji
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
— Masanobu Fukuoka
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
“To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.”
— Dogen
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”
— King David
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles no matter how long but only by a spiritual journey.”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”
“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the earth for modesty. Be like the sea for tolerance. This is the way of peace.”
“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
“The earth is what we all have in common.”
“God is one supreme among gods and men not at all like mortals in body or mind.”
— Xenophanes
“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe.”
“The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.”
— Alexander von Humboldt
“Above all I have been a sentient being a thinking animal on this beautiful planet.”
— Oliver Sacks
“The age of nations is past. The task before us now if we would not perish is to build the earth.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous, and each has its purpose.”
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy and after all our most pleasing responsibility.”
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower”
— Albert Camus
“I must have flowers always and always.”
“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.”
“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.”
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
“In every outward and visible grace of life there is an inward and spiritual grace.”
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
“I have discovered that the wilderness has a mysterious quality of its own.”
— Sigurd Olson
“Nature is the living visible garment of God.”
— Goethe
“Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished.”
“When we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks through a sense of wonder”
“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.”
“The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate”
“If we surrendered to earths intelligence we could rise up rooted like trees.”
“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished and this fills the wise with wonder”
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.”
“I dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
“He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.”
— Socrates
“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
“The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the whole world.”
— Charles Dudley Warner
“To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury.”
— Thomas Moore
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
— E. E. Cummings
“Wounding and healing are not opposites they are part of the same thing it is our nature to heal”
— Rachel Naomi Remen
“Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.”
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better”
“Study nature love nature stay close to nature it will never fail you”
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.”
— Leopold
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”
“Live now believe me wait not till tomorrow. Gather the roses of life today.”
— Pierre de Ronsard
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.”
— Margaret Mead
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“The land retains an identity of its own still deeper and more subtle than we can know.”
— Barry Lopez
“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.”
— Plato
“In spite of myself the insidious mastery of song betrays me back till the heart of me weeps to belong to the old Sunday evenings at home.”
— Thomas Hardy
“The landscape retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know.”
“The beauty of the trees the softness of the air the fragrance of the grass speaks to me.”
— Chief Dan George
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
“Trees are the earths endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
“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.”
“Do not be ashamed to rest. Even the fields lie fallow.”
“Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.”
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature and each one carries wonder”
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy.”
“Come forth into the light of things let nature be your teacher.”
“Nature is a petrified magic city.”
— Novalis
“Nature is not a place to visit it is home”
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads”
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
“The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root. Returning to the root is stillness.”
“I must have flowers always and always”
“We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.”
“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.”
— Marie Curie
“Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
“Good architecture lets nature in”
— Marcel Breuer
“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician.”
— Paracelsus
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life and they share this gift with kindness”
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe think in terms of energy frequency and vibration.”
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
“In the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti full of peace and joy but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-lived life.”
— Herman Melville
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain the sound of wind in a primeval wood and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”
— Henry Beston
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming”
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods there is a rapture on the lonely shore”
“Spring passes and one remembers ones innocence.”
— Yoko Ono
“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 through time”
“Glance at the sun see the moon and the stars gaze at the beauty of earth and be in awe”
“If all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago with wonder intact”
“The family is one of natures masterpieces.”
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“The moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious awesome indescribably magnificent world in itself.”
— Henry Miller
“The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.”
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”
— John Calvin
“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour if we will only tune in.”
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”
“The world is a scene of changes, and to be constant in nature were inconstancy.”
— Abraham Cowley
“A fish cannot drown in water a bird does not fall in air”
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
— Thoreau
“Living in accordance with experience of what happens by nature is the path to wisdom.”
— Chrysippus
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