Famous Nature Quotes

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

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"

"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

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Earth laughs in flowers"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

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

Henri Matisse, Artist

"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

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"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

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

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

Socrates, 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

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence"

Hal Borland, Author

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

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

Robert Green Ingersoll, Lawyer

"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart"

Hal Borland, Author

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

Theodore Roethke, Poet

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

Sara Teasdale, Author

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

Walt Whitman, Poet

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

Walt Whitman, Poet

"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

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

H.G. Wells, Author

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

Jimmy Carter, President

"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

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

Thomas Moore, Poet

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

Richard Bach, Novelist

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"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

"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods"

Wendell Berry, Poet

"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams"

Gilbert White, Scientist

"What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else"

Hal Boyle, Reporter

"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind"

Annie Dillard, Author

"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

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