Nature & Outdoors: Nature Quotes

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"If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours?"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"Give me odorous at sunrise, a garden of beautiful flowers, where I can walk undisturbed"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements"

Audre Lorde, Poet

Audre Lorde

"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

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

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility; Spring shall plant, and autumn garner to the end of time"

Robert Browning, Poet

Robert Browning

"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

Jacques Yves Cousteau

"Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

Jacques Yves Cousteau

"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

Brian Mulroney

"I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

Audrey Hepburn

"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"The course of Nature is the art of God"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them"

Tom Hanks, Actor

Tom Hanks

"Growing up in Northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day"

Tom Hanks, Actor

Tom Hanks

"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"Earth is a flower and it's pollinating"

Neil Young, Musician

Neil Young

"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

Arnold J. Toynbee

"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home"

John Dewey, Philosopher

John Dewey

"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"The Moon! Artemis! The great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence leaves its impress upon the soul of man"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

Orison Swett Marden

"Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

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