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