Inspirational Nature Quotes:

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

- Christopher Paolini

source: Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Nature, Hate, Ocean, Inspirational Nature, Shackles

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...

- John Muir

source: "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

topic: Travel, Home, Tired, Wildness, National Parks

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.

- Rajneesh

topic: Nature, Stars, Eye, Inspirational Nature, Simply Happy

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Walden ch. 2 (1854)

topic: Life, Cutting, Wish, Marrow, Discovering Yourself

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Time, Memories, Butterfly, Inspirational Nature, Not Enough Time

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

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

- John Ruskin

topic: Change, Weather, Different, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

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

source: "Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.

topic: Nature, Rain, Sunshine, Inspirational Nature, Inspirational Rain

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Beautiful, Nature, Stars, Nature Beauty, Inspirational Nature

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.

- Henry Beston

topic: Nature, Joy, Crafts, Inspirational Nature, Beauty Of The Earth

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

- Iris Murdoch

source: Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin

topic: Nature, Flower, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Flower

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

- John Muir

topic: Inspirational, Nature, Giving, Spires, National Parks

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

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Nature, Motivation, Ocean, Inspirational Nature, Ocean Sea

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

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

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

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

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Funny, Life, Nature, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Nature

Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

- Rajneesh

topic: Flower, Simply Happy, Tree, Inspirational Nature

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

topic: Fall, Autumn, Bird, Inspirational Nature, October And Fall

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

- Charlie Cook

topic: Nature, Roots, Where You Live, Nature Beauty, Inspirational Nature

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Life, Summer, July, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Nature

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

- Anne Frank

topic: Nature, Believe, Simple, Beautiful Nature, Nature Beauty

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Nature, Stars, Flower, Sounds Of Silence, Soul Beauty

All nature wears one universal grin.

- Henry Fielding

topic: Garden, Inspirational Nature, One With Nature, Eco, Nature And Art

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

topic: Art, Theory, Flats, Fine Arts, Inspirational 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

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Weed, Nature, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Inspirational Gardening

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Nature, Men, Laughing, Healthy Living, Inspirational Earth

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Nature, Stars, Flower, Man And Nature, Inspirational Nature

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

- John Burroughs

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Light, Inspirational Nature, Light And Color

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

- Thomas M. Disch

source: Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

topic: World, Mud, Puddles, Inspirational Nature, Spring Season

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Love, Positive, Summer, May Flowers, Inspirational Flower

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Nature, Flower, Garden, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Flower

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Nature, Spiritual Nature, Inspirational Nature

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

- Francis Bacon

source: Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Men, Garden, Perfection, Inspirational Gardening, Inspirational 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

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

- John Fowles

topic: Nature, Moving, Tree, Inspirational Nature, Inspiring Nature

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Summer, Nature, Tree, Inspirational Nature, Emily

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Nature, Nature Beauty, Inspirational Nature

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Summer, Nature, Spring, Inspirational Nature, Spring Season

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

topic: Inspirational, Success, Summer, Inspirational Nature, Inspirational Retirement