101 Nature Quotes To Appreciate The Beauty Of The Outdoors

From enchanting nature’s beauty quotes that evoke visions of lush meadows full of brilliantly-colored flowers or dense forests with sky-high trees to famous quotes about nature’s ever-present—and absolutely fundamental—role in our lives, these 101 quotes about nature will have you itching to get off your couch and get outside. For famous quotes about nature, we have them here! So whether you keep it simple and kick back in your backyard with your immediate family or you do something a bit more adventurous, like hitting the local trails for a socially distant hike with your pup, take a moment to get outdoors and appreciate the world’s natural wonders, since spending a little bit of time in nature is like chicken soup for the soul—and we could all use a little more of that right now.

101 Nature Quotes

1. In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. –Alice Walker
2. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. —Khalil Gibran
3. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. —Albert Einstein
4. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. —Henry David Thoreau
5. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. —Helen Keller
6. We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. —Native American proverb
7. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. —Frank Lloyd Wright
8. Choose only one master—nature. —Rembrandt
9. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. —Lao Tzu
10. If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. —Laura Ingalls Wilder 11. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. —Rachel Carson
11. Leave the road, take the trails. —Pythagoras
12. Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. —Henry David Thoreau
13. I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. —John Burroughs
14. It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. —Robert Louis Stevenson
15. For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. —Jacques-Yves Cousteau
16. There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it. —Charlotte Eriksson
17. To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. —Mahatma Gandhi
18. Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known. —Carl Sagan
19. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. —Frank Lloyd Wright
20. 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
21. 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
22. Men argue. Nature acts. —Voltaire
23. All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. —Marie Curie
24. Colors are the smiles of nature. —Leigh Hunt
25. Land really is the best art. —Andy Warhol
26. Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. —Gretel Ehrlich
27. The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
28. Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’ —Robin Williams
30. The earth has music for those who listen. —William Shakespeare
31. There are always flowers for those who want to see them. —Henri Matisse
32. The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. —Joseph Campbell
33. The Amen of nature is always a flower. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
34. 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
35. Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. —James Russell Lowell
37. The earth is what we all have in common. —Wendell Berry
38. Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them. —Dogen
39. The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. —Blaise Pascal
40. The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. —Zeno
41. Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. —Henry van Dyke
42. Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. —Langston Hughes
43. Nature is loved by what is best in us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. —Winston Churchill
45. A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. —Walt Whitman
46. The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. —Henry Miller
47. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. —William Shakespeare
48. By discovering nature, you discover yourself. —Maxime Lagacé
49. Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time. —Katrina Mayer
50. 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
51. Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another. —Edmund Burke
52. If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. —Rainer Maria Rilke
53. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. —D. H. Lawrence
54. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. —Rachel Carson
55. The poetry of the earth is never dead. —John Keats
56. I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. —David Attenborough
57. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. —Aristotle
58. The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. —Claude Monet
59. The ocean is a mighty harmonist. —William Wordsworth
60. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
61. Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. —Antoinette Brown Blackwell
62. I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax. —Richard Feynman
63. Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. —Theodore Roethke
64. Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. —Steve Maraboldi
65. Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world. —John Muir
66. Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet. —Brooke Hampton
67. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson
68. Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. —Michel de Montaigne
69. Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. —Gary Snyder
70. 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
71. To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. —Jane Austen
72. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. —Walt Whitman
73. Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude. —Louie Schwartzberg
74. The earth laughs in flowers. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
75. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. —Henry David Thoreau
76. Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind. —Amit Ray
77. Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. —Isaac Newton
78. Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. —Blaise Pascal
79. 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
80. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things. —Lao Tzu
81. Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
82. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. —Albert Einstein
83. It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless. —Riccardo Bozzi
84. If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you. —Alex Trebek
85. Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. —Jimmy Carter
86. If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way. —Aristotle
87. Going to the mountains is like going home. —John Muir
88. Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. —L. Wolfe Gilbert
89. The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. —E. E. Cummings
90. Some of nature’s most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake. —Rachel Carson
91. Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. —Hans Christian Andersen
92. The beauty of the natural world lies in the details. —Natalie Angier
93. My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. —Aldous Huxley
94. Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. —Gerard De Nerval
95. Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. —Standing Bear
96. I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. —Henry David Thoreau
97. If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. —Buddha
98. Nature is the art of God. —Dante Alighieri
99. Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. —George Santanaya
100. 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. —John Lubbock Get your wildlife fix while in quarantine with these25 best live animal camsyou can watch while social distancing.