Nature Quotes

143. Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.

^{Sinclair Lewis}

144. The view of Earth is spectacular.

^{Sally Ride}

145. Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

^{Will Durant}

146. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.

^{Thomas Moore}

147. There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

^{Thomas Jefferson}

148. I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

^{Bertrand Russell}

149. Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

^{Carl Sandburg}

150. When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

^{James Whitcomb Riley}

151. We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

^{William Hazlitt}

152. What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?

^{Roy Rogers}

153. All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

^{Thomas Browne}

154. Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

^{Jimmy Carter}

155. Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

^{Guru Nanak}

156. Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

^{Daniel Boone}

157. One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

^{Loren Eiseley}

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

^Aristotle

159. Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

^{Pierre Schaeffer}

160. That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

^{Marcus Aurelius}

161. My boy, one small breeze doesn’t make a wind storm.

^{John McGraw}

162. I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

^{Georg Trakl}

163. Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

^{Margaret Fuller}

164. All nature wears one universal grin.

^{Henry Fielding}

165. The Amen of nature is always a flower.

^{Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.}

166. Nature is neutral.

^{Adlai Stevenson I}

167. Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

^{Michel de Montaigne}

168. There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

^{Edouard Manet}

169. As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

^Virgil

170. There’s no night without stars.

^{Andre Norton}

171. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

^{D. H. Lawrence}

172. The world is always in movement.

^{V. S. Naipaul}

173. 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}

174. Water is the driving force of all nature.

^{Leonardo da Vinci}

175. There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

^{Don DeLillo}

176. Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

^{Emily Carr}

177. ‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’

^{W. H. Auden}

178. Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

^{Truman Capote}

179. Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

^{Freya Stark}

180. The earth laughs in flowers.

^{Ralph Waldo Emerson}

181. There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

^{Robert Wilson Lynd}

182. Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

^{Ansel Adams}

183. 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}

184. Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

^{William Wordsworth}

185. Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

^{Bhumibol Adulyadej}

186. Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, andchildren’s faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

^{Sara Teasdale}

187. There is the sky, which is all men’s together.

^Euripides

188. Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

^{Matthew Arnold}

189. Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

^{Doug Larson}

190. The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

^{Elias Hicks}

191. Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

^{Jean Paul}

192. Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

^{Andy Goldsworthy}

193. I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

^{Ella Maillart}

194. The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

^{Sitting Bull}