Nature Quotes

243. All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.

^{Konstantin Tsiolkovsky}

244. The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

^{John Ruskin}

245. The groves were God’s first temples.

^{William Cullen Bryant}

246. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

^{Emily Dickinson}

247. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

^{Edward Abbey}

248. Nature is not human hearted.

^{Lao Tzu}

249. 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}

250. One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

^{Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}

251. 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}

252. Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

^{Samuel Daniel}

253. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

^{H. P. Lovecraft}

254. Though pleas’d to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

^{Matthew Green}

255. It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

^{Cyril Connolly}

256. To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

^{Auguste Rodin}

257. He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

^{Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel}

258. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

^{Alexander Pope}

259. Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

^{Wallace Stevens}

260. You can’t just let nature run wild.

^{Walt Disney}

261. 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}

262. Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

^{Blaise Pascal}

263. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot savethem from fools.

^{John Muir}

264. These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms.

^{Pedro Calderon de la Barca}

265. There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

^{William Cullen Bryant}

266. The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

^{Ruth Bernhard}

267. I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

^{Jilly Cooper}

268. Nature does nothing in vain.

^Aristotle

269. It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

^{P. D. James}

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

^{Rabindranath Tagore}

271. Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

^{Albert Camus}

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

^{Helen Keller}

273. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

^{Albert Einstein}

274. During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

^{John James Audubon}

275. The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

^{William Wordsworth}

276. Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

^{Alfred Lord Tennyson}

277. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

^{Walt Whitman}

278. Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

^{Theodore Roethke}

279. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy.

^{Hamlin Garland}

280. This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

^{Richard Jefferies}

281. Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

^{R. Buckminster Fuller}

282. I love not man the less, but Nature more.

^{Lord Byron}

283. When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

^{Vincent Van Gogh}

284. I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

^{Claude Monet}

285. 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}

286. Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.

^{Kin Hubbard}

287. We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

^{Walter Gilbert}

288. 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}