Quotes about nature
Welcome to our Nature collection, an immersive journey into the awe-inspiring beauty, tranquility, and wonder that our natural world offers. In this curated compilation of quotes, we dive into the breathtaking realm of nature, celebrating its majesty, resilience, and the profound connection it nurtures with our souls.
Nature is more than landscapes; it's a source of inspiration, solace, and a reminder of the intricate ecosystems that sustain life. Our Nature quotes honor the serenity of sunrises, the magnificence of wildlife, and the wisdom that emerges from observing the rhythms of the earth.
Whether you're an explorer of forests, a lover of oceans, or simply captivated by the beauty of the world around us, these quotes offer insights into the deep bond between humanity and the natural environment.
Embark on a journey that immerses you in the cycles of seasons, the harmony of ecosystems, and the meditative peace that comes from connecting with nature. Discover the lessons nature teaches us, the importance of environmental stewardship, and the transformative impact of spending time in the great outdoors.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorAs a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.
Antonio Machado
— PoetThe deepest words
of the wise man teach us
the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
Patricia Piccinini
— ArtistI think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.
Geronimo
— Apache Warrior & Symbol of Indigenous ResistanceI was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsA really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestThe rocks are where they are- and this is their will. The rivers flow- and this is their will. The birds fly- this is their will. Human beings talk- this is their will. The seasons change, heaven sends down rain or snow, the earth occasionally shakes, the waves roll, the stars shine- each of them follows its own will. To be is to will and so is to become.
Euell Gibbons
— Champion of Wild FoodsMy love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorPeople use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.
Peter Weiss
— German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmakerEvery death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race I hate Nature this passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-face that can bear everything this goads us to greater and greater acts
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistYour true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.
Herman Melville
— American novelist, short story writerO Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
Ben Jonson
— English playwright and poetMoney never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
Frantisek Kupka
— Czech painter and graphic artistOnce you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void as you might have feared.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodPersons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
Edward Jenner
— British physician and scientistThe deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases
Clancy Brown
— American film actorAtrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
— Founder of the Christian and Missionary AllianceHoliness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
Claude Monet
— French ArtistI am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Alexander Herzen
— Russian JournalistWhat breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Christian Dior
— French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses Christian Dior SEMy dream is to save women from nature.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorMy nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.
Flora Thompson
— NovelistCandleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep, she could see some of these. But mere seeing from a distance did not satisfy her; she longed to go alone far into the fields and hear the birds singing, the brooks tinkling, and the wind rustling through the corn, as she had when a child. To smell things and touch things, warm earth and flowers and grasses, and to stand and gaze where no one could see her, drinking it all in.
Antonio Machado
— PoetThe wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
Geronimo
— Apache Warrior & Symbol of Indigenous ResistanceI was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsWhen I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestA simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.
Euell Gibbons
— Champion of Wild FoodsWhenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistLook round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, inpregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodI believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.
Herman Melville
— American novelist, short story writerConsider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
Christian Dior
— French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses Christian Dior SEYou can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.
Flora Thompson
— NovelistAlas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsThe sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So soon?" E. B. White "On A Florida Key
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistIf nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
Flora Thompson
— NovelistSome great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsThere is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistWhere is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune, which we must often make to it? O sons of earth! Are ye ignorant of the value of this celestial mistress? And do ye meanly inquire for her portion, when ye observe her genuine beauty?
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodFirst follow Nature, and your judgment frame
By her just standard, which is still the same:
Unerring nature, still divinely bright,
One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and test of art.
Flora Thompson
— NovelistPale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodEye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan period[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Natures Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodNature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodThe learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodExtremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodFrom Nature's chain whatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodMark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodBut see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodSilence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodAnd binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodSee plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodPoets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodThat, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodAll nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodNature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodTwo purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodI begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodHope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be Blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rest and expatiates in a life to come.
Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
His soul proud Science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way;
Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n,
Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodThe way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodAll are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodConceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.