Earth And Nature Quotes:

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

- Jules Renard

topic: Nature, Heaven, Pieces, Nature Beauty, Natural Environment

Forests are the lungs of our land......

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Land, Forests, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental, Inspiring Nature

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

- John James Audubon

topic: Nature, Children, Father, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

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.

- Aldo Leopold

source: A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

topic: Inspiring, Nature, Ocean, Inspirational Environmental, Inspiring Nature

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Summer, Peace, Natural Gifts, Natural Things

The good man is the friend of all living things.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Nature, Inspirational Earth, Inspiring Nature

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.

- George Washington Carver

topic: Love, God, Nature, Mother Nature, Nature Love

The earth has music for those who listen.

- George Santayana

topic: Music, Encouragement, Art, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Inspirational, Life, Thank You, Beautiful Nature, Nature Beauty

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

topic: Needs, Bread, Imperfect, Beautiful Nature, Soul Beauty

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

- John Muir

source: Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

topic: Peace, Nature, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Journeys And Paths

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.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Zoos, Ocean, Deep Ecology, Destruction Of Nature

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.67, e-artnow

topic: Nature, Adventure, Garden, Beautiful Nature, National Parks

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Nature, Believe, Yield, Inspiring Nature, Mother Nature

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

- Ansel Adams

source: "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.

topic: Nature, Fighting, Government, Inspirational Environmental, Our Planet

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Experience, Littles, Way, Mother Nature, Earth And Nature

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Nature, Talkative, Wild Animal

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Adventure, Garden, Wildness, National Parks

The mountains are calling and I must go.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.190, The Mountaineers Books

topic: Nature, Mountain, Calling, National Parks, Climbing Mountain

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Fun, Oil, Earth Day, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Life, Running, Nature, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Love, God, Spiritual, Nature Beauty, Inspirational Gardening

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Love, Inspiring, Peace, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

source: Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

topic: God, Nature, Atheist, Beautiful Nature, Mechanization

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

- John Muir

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Nature, Natural Things, Beautiful Nature

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

topic: Nature, Flower, Adventure, Journeys And Paths, Inspirational Earth

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

- John Muir

topic: Nature, I Hate You, Heart, Beautiful Nature, National Parks

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

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. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

- Anne Frank

source: Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Happiness, God, Lonely, Beautiful Nature, Nature Beauty

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Nature, World, Beautiful Nature, National Parks, Nature Beauty

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

topic: Strength, Beauty, Nature, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

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

source: 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

topic: Lonely, Nature, Travel, Man And Nature, Beautiful Nature

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

- Lady Bird Johnson

topic: Nature, Environment, Share, Inspirational Earth, Our Planet

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.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Space Race, Inspirational Animal

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

- Charles Lindbergh

source: Reader's Digest, July 1972.

topic: Simple, Men, Earth Day, Natural Environment, Destroying The Earth

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

- John Keats

topic: Inspirational, Life, Nature, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

- John Lubbock

source: "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

topic: Education, Teacher, Nature, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Nature

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

- Rachel Carson

topic: Inspirational, Time, Nature, Beautiful Nature, Nature Beauty

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

- John Muir

topic: Life, Beautiful, Death, Beautiful Nature, Meadows

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.114, A&C Black

topic: Life, Nature, Humility, Nature And Life, Earth And Nature

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.70, Harvard University Press

topic: Nature, Wind, Weather, Nature Love, Love And Nature

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

- Standing Bear

topic: Nature, Heart, Men, Man And Nature, Beautiful Nature

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Sunrise, Vapor, Nature Beauty, Sunrise And Sunset, Earth And Nature

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

- Alfred Nobel

topic: Teacher, Nature, Heart, Inspirational Nature, Earth And Nature

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Love, Nature, Art, Nature Love, Love And Nature

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

topic: Life, Nature, Space, Beautiful Nature, Earth And Nature