Nature is amazing. It’s full of beauty, from tiny flowers to huge mountains. Sometimes it’s hard to find words to describe it. That’s where these quotes come in. I’ve gathered 115 of the very best nature quotes.
They’re from all sorts of people who love the outdoors.
Some are from famous writers. Others are from artists or scientists. All of them saw something special in nature. These quotes might make you see things differently. Maybe they’ll inspire you to go outside more. Or help you appreciate the nature around you.
Nature has a way of calming us down. It can make us happy or thoughtful. These quotes capture those feelings.
Ready to be inspired? Let’s dive into these captivating nature quotes. They might just change how you see the world around you!
115 Nature Quotes That Capture Nature’s Wonder
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
- “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” – Aristotle
- “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.” – Robert Frost
- “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
- “Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” – Roger Miller
- “The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare
- “Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.” – Luigi Pirandello
- “Nature provides exceptions to every rule.” – Margaret Fuller
- “Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.” – Emily Carr
- “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in 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.” – Lord Byron
- “What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?” – Emil Cioran
- “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
- “To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” – Jane Austen
- “Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.” – Mattie Stepanek
- “Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.” – Walt Whitman
- “Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.” – John Updike
- “In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
- “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” – Russell Baker
- “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” – Toni Morrison
- “On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.” – Jules Renard
- “Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.” – Robert Delaunay
- “Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?” – Rose Kennedy
- “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” – Arthur C. Clarke
- “How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!” – Emily Dickinson
- “The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.” – Jean Ingelow
- “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” – Edward Abbey
- “There is no forgiveness in nature.” – Ugo Betti
- “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” – George Eliot
- “A forest bird never wants a cage.” – Henrik Ibsen
- “Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
- “Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen
- “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
- “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” – Socrates
- “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke
- “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs
- “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
- “Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.” – Josiah Gilbert Holland
- “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” – Langston Hughes
- “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” – John Ruskin
- “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse
- “Nature hasn’t gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.” – Bjork
- “Nature was my kindergarten.” – William Christopher Handy
- “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Khalil Gibran
- “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.” – H. P. Lovecraft
- “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” – John Lubbock
- “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” – Frederick Douglass
- “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” – E. O. Wilson
- “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- “Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.” – Blaise Pascal
- “Gray skies are just clouds passing over.” – Duke Ellington
- “Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” – Dag Hammarskjold
- “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” – Martin Luther
- “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
- “Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- “Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.” – Henri Rousseau
- “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker
- “We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” – Native American proverb
- “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
- “Choose only one master—nature.” – Rembrandt
- “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
- “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” – Rachel Carson
- “Leave the road, take the trails.” – Pythagoras
- “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” – Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- “There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.” – Charlotte Eriksson
- “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” – Carl Sagan
- “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
- “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.” – Emily Dickinson
- “All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.” – Marie Curie
- “Colors are the smiles of nature.” – Leigh Hunt
- “Land really is the best art.” – Andy Warhol
- “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.” – Gretel Ehrlich
- “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'” – Robin Williams
- “The earth has music for those who listen.” – William Shakespeare
- “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” – Joseph Campbell
- “The Amen of nature is always a flower.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- “Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.” – John Burroughs
- “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.” – James Russell Lowell
- “The earth is what we all have in common.” – Wendell Berry
- “Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.” – Dogen
- “The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” – Blaise Pascal
- “The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” – Zeno
- “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” – Henry van Dyke
- “Nature is loved by what is best in us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill
- “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” – Walt Whitman
- “The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.” – Henry Miller
- “By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” – Maxime Lagacé
- “Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.” – Katrina Mayer
- “Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another.” – Edmund Burke
- “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
- “The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” – D. H. Lawrence
- “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson
- “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” – John Keats
- “I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.” – David Attenborough
- “The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” – Claude Monet
- “The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” – William Wordsworth
- “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.” – Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- “I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax.” – Richard Feynman
- “Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” – Steve Maraboldi
- “Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.” – John Muir
- “Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.” – Brooke Hampton
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” – Michel de Montaigne
- “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder
Final Thoughts
Nature is all around us, full of wonder and beauty. These quotes remind us to stop and look.
They show us how smart people have always loved nature. From old times to today, nature inspires us. Next time you’re outside, take a moment. Look at the trees, sky, or flowers. What do you see?
Maybe you’ll think of one of these quotes. Or come up with your own! Nature can make us all poets.
Remember, nature isn’t just pretty. It’s important. It gives us air, food, and homes for animals. We need to take care of nature. That way, it can keep inspiring people for years to come.
So go outside. Take a walk. Breathe deep. Let nature amaze you. Who knows? You might find your own perfect words to describe its beauty.
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