Nature Quotes
Nature quotes reflect the inspiration and information we glean from the world around us. Nature is our haven. It is a place of peace and rejuvenation. Nature quotes show us how to learn from nature. Time in nature is a healing balm for our soul.
Read more...If you think you are too busy to spend time in nature consider this Lao Tzu quote: “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” Make time for nature in every day. Take a short walk. Smell a fragrant flower. Listen to the birds singing their songs. You are part of it all.
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Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can’t see the stars at night.
Thomas Berry
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
Smiley Blanton
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
I am comforted by life’s stability, by earth’s unchageableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
Pearl S. Buck
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
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
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
John Burroughs
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
Rachel Carson
Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge.
Deepak Chopra
The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.
Jeff Cox
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Eleanora Duse
Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Thomas Alva Edison
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
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
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
Oneness is the law of nature: what we do to others, we do to ourselves.
Jonathan H. Ellerby
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
Sue Grafton
A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz
When we pay attention to nature’s music, we find that everything on the earth contributes to its harmony.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.
Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
Art is the child of Nature.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Sir John Lubbock
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
Claude Monet
Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.
Mary Morrissey
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
The dearest way into the Universe is though a forest wilderness.
John Muir
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir
There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.
Sigurd F. Olson
Spending time in nature both reduces stress and enhances creativity.
Salli Rasberry
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Renoir
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.
John Ruskin
Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.
Sathya Sai Baba
Your true nature is purity, peace and joy.
Sathya Sai Baba
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature.
Saint Augustine
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine—a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come…believe in them. They reflect your true nature.
Ravi Shankar
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
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
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.
Vincent van Gogh
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice Walker
The rainbow comes and goes, and lovely is the rose.
William Wordsworth
Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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