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