Nature And Beauty Quotes:

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

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

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

- Joyce Kilmer

source: Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

topic: Love, Inspirational, Nature, Natural Gifts, Inspirational Gardening

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

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

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

- Claude Monet

source: Claude Monet (1985). “Monet: a retrospective”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Nature Beauty, Spiritual Nature

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

- Jack Kerouac

topic: Dream, Wisdom, Song, Drifting, Lying Down

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

- Logan Pearsall Smith

source: Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Humbug, Nature And Beauty

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful, Beautiful Nature, Soul 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

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

- John Ruskin

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

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

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

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

- Helen Keller

topic: Nature, Garden, Luxury, Inspirational Gardening, Inspiring Nature

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

topic: Happiness, Nature, Air, Beautiful Nature, Mountain Air

The earth has music for those who listen.

- George Santayana

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

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 a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

- Linda Hogan

topic: Patience, Nature, Garden, Nature Beauty, Inspiring Nature

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

- John Keats

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

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

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, for they speak with the voice of God.

- George Washington Carver

topic: Nature, Reading, Book, Nature Beauty, One With Nature

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

- Marie Curie

source: Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.80, Courier Corporation

topic: Life, Nature, Children, Marie, Nature And Life

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

- George Washington Carver

topic: Good Morning, Beauty, Beautiful, Beautiful Nature, Funny Good Morning

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

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

- John Burroughs

source: John Burroughs (1912). “Time and change”

topic: Music, Nature, Health, Soul Healing, Nature Beauty

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

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Patience, Natural Gifts, Keep Patience

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Natural Things, Definition Of Beauty

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

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

- Jane Austen

topic: Nature, Flower, Perfect, Beautiful Nature, Mansfield Park

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Natural Things, Spiritual Beauty

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

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Nature, Giving, Nature Beauty, Nature And Life, Nature And Beauty

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

source: Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

topic: Nature, Tree, Earth, Nature's Beauty, Nature And Beauty

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Good Night, Summer, Nature, Inspiring Nature, Summer And Winter

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

- Rachel Carson

topic: Beauty, Nature, Humility, Mother Nature, Sense Of Wonder

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

source: "Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything". Book by Gregory Sams (p. 78), May 1, 2009.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Summer, Sour Grapes, Ripening

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

- John Milton

topic: Nature, Air, Years, Nature And Beauty

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Wise, Gratitude, Nature, Spiritual Nature, Sun And Stars

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Nature, Natural Gifts, Beautiful Nature

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

- Robert Frost

topic: Grief, Flower, Eden, Scribbles, Impermanence

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

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

- Alice Walker

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Nature, Beautiful Nature, Nature Love

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