Famous Nature Quotes

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature"

Socrates, Philosopher

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"

Anais Nin, Author

"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"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, Journalist

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit"

Moliere, Playwright

"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines"

Satchel Paige, Athlete

"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, Dramatist

"Earth laughs in flowers"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on"

Woody Allen, Director

"I am two with nature"

Woody Allen, Director

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative"

H.G. Wells, Author

"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

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

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist