100+ Inspiring Nature Quotes To Light Up Your Day

Nature refers to the physical world and its phenomena, including the study of the earth’s atmosphere, the seas, and the land, including their physical and biological properties, processes, and phenomena. It encompasses everything from the smallest particles to the largest structures in the universe, and it also includes the study of natural phenomena such as weather, climate, and geological processes. Additionally, nature refers to the natural environment, including forests, lakes, rivers, and other ecosystems, as well as all the living organisms that inhabit the earth, such as plants, animals, and microorganisms.

Nature Quotes

1. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted and 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

12. “Leave the road, and take the trails.”
— Pythagoras

13. “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

14. “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
— John Burroughs

15. “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

16. “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

17. “There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.”
— Charlotte Eriksson

18. “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

19. “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
— Carl Sagan

20. “Study nature, love nature, and stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright

21. “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

22. “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And recovery. The recovery alone will do If bees are few.”
— Emily Dickinson

23. “Men argue. Nature acts.”
— Voltaire

24. “All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
— Marie Curie

25. “Colors are the smiles of nature.”
— Leigh Hunt

26. “Land really is the best art.”
— Andy Warhol

27. “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
— Gretel Ehrlich

28. “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

29. “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!”
— Robin Williams

31. “The earth has music for those who listen.”
— William Shakespeare

32. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse

33. “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
— Joseph Campbell

34. “The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

35. “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

36. “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

37. “A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”
— James Russell Lowell

38. “The earth is what we all have in common.”
— Wendell Berry

39. “Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.”
— Dogen

40. “The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
— Blaise Pascal

41. “The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”
— Zeno

42. “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
— Henry van Dyke

43. “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

44. “Nature is loved by what is best in us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

45. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
— Winston Churchill

46. “A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
— Walt Whitman

47. “The world is not to be put in order. The world is in order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”
— Henry Miller

48. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
— William Shakespeare

49. “By discovering nature, you discover yourself.”
— Maxime Lagacé

50. “Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.”
— Katrina Mayer

51. “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, and snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
— John Ruskin

52. “Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
— Edmund Burke

53. “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke

54. “The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”
— D. H. Lawrence

55. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
— Rachel Carson

56. “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
— John Keats

57. “I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.”
— David Attenborough

58. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
— Aristotle

59. “The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.”
— Claude Monet

60. “The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
— William Wordsworth

61. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. “Nature is just enough, but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.”
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

63. “I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax.”
— Richard Feynman

64. “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”
— Theodore Roethke

65. “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

66. “Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.”
— John Muir

67. “Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire, and some peace and quiet.”
— Brooke Hampton

68. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson

69. “Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”
— Michel de Montaigne

70. “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
— Gary Snyder

71. “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

72. “To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
— Jane Austen

73. “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars.”
— Walt Whitman

74. “Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.”
— Louie Schwartzberg

75. “The earth laughs in flowers.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

76. “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

77. “Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
— Amit Ray

78. “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
— Isaac Newton

79. “Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
— Blaise Pascal

80. “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

81. “Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.”
— Lao Tzu

82. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

83. “We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
— Albert Einstein

84. “It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless.”
— Riccardo Bozzi

85. “If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.”
— Alex Trebek

86. “Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
— Jimmy Carter

87. “If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.”
— Aristotle

88. “Going to the mountains is like going home.”
— John Muir

89. “Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.”
— L. Wolfe Gilbert

90. “The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
— E. E. Cummings

91. “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

92. “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
— Hans Christian Andersen

93. “The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.”
— Natalie Angier

94. “My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
— Aldous Huxley

95. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”
— Gerard De Nerval

96. “Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”
— Standing Bear

97. “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”
— Henry David Thoreau

98. “If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.”
— Buddha

99. “Nature is the art of God.”
— Dante Alighieri

100. “Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.”
— George Santanaya

101. “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