“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
John Burroughs
HealingSenses
Nature Quotes
135 FAMOUS QUOTES · NATURE
Nature Quotes
Read 200 of the best nature quotes from Lao Tzu, the Atharva Veda, Rabindranath Tagore, Wordsworth, Thoreau and John Muir, on trees, mountains, the sea, seasons and caring for our planet.
“Walking is man's best medicine.”
Attributed to Hippocrates
WalkingHealth
“I can only meditate when I am walking.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
WalkingMeditation
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
Edward Abbey
WildernessSpirit
“Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.”
Theodore Roosevelt (on the Grand Canyon)
ConservationWonder
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
Robert Swan
ResponsibilityAction
“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”
Attributed to Margaret Mead
EnvironmentSociety
“The earth is what we all have in common.”
Wendell Berry
EarthUnity
“We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do something about it.”
Barack Obama
Climate ChangeResponsibility
“You are never too small to make a difference.”
Greta Thunberg
ActionCourage
“The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”
Lady Bird Johnson
EnvironmentUnity
“Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?”
Indira Gandhi (Stockholm Conference, 1972)
PovertyEnvironment
“People protect what they love.”
Jacques Cousteau
LoveConservation
“The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world.”
David Attenborough
ChangeDependence
“Enjoy it through renunciation; do not covet anybody's wealth.”
The Isha Upanishad
SimplicityContentment
“Nature does not make leaps.”
Carl Linnaeus
PatienceScience
“Nature is the living, visible garment of God.”
Attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Divine NatureFaith
“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”
William Shakespeare (Coriolanus)
AnimalsFriendship
“God made the country, and man made the town.”
William Cowper
CountrysideSimple Living
“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
TruthHonesty
“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Lord Byron
LovePoetry
“God's in His heaven, all's right with the world!”
Robert Browning
PeacePoetry
“Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you.”
Christina Rossetti
WindMystery
“The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.”
Japanese Proverb
PerspectiveHumility
“When you drink water, remember the spring.”
Chinese Proverb
GratitudeWater