Nature Related Quotes:

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

- E. B. White

topic: Time, Nature, Fall, Man And Nature, Nature Of Man

The earth has music for those who listen.

- George Santayana

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

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

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

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

- Juvenal

topic: Nature, Doe, Inspirational Earth, One With Nature, Nature And Life

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

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

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

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Garden, Return, Woods, Woods And Forests, Children And Nature

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

- William Shakespeare

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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

- John Muir

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

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

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

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

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

- Louisa May Alcott

topic: Art, Nature, Flower, Wild Roses, Nature Related

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

- Hans Christian Andersen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Nature, Philosophical, Flower, Enough Said, Just Living Life

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

- Voltaire

topic: Art, Health, Medicine, Chiropractic Care, Medical Care

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

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Sarcastic, Men, Tree, Inspirational Tree, Arbor Day

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

- William Blake

topic: Sports, Determination, Men, Inspiring Nature, Climbing Mountain

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

- Hal Borland

topic: Nature, Squirrels, Tree, Spring Flowers, World Earth Day

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

topic: Nature, Eye, Leaving, Nature And Life, Nature Life

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

- Gerard De Nerval

topic: Nature, Flower, Tree, Inspirational Flower, Blooming

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

- John Muir

topic: Mother, Nature, Adventure, Inspiring Nature, The Wild Nature

The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge...

- Robert Bly

topic: Religious, Religion, Might, Nature Related