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